Louis C. K. Quotes
I never viewed money as being 'my money' I always saw it as 'the money.' It's a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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We want to get to a point where anything you can think of finding that is video related is searchable or recommended to you on YouTube.
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
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The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.
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Who decides what is and what isn't punk? I want to write songs that people hear and feel, and I want to be successful and reach a big audience. I'm not trying to be the coolest guy in the world; I'm trying to write songs that mean something to people. As you get successful, sometimes you lose one set of fans and gain another.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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You can show up at Everest having never really climbed before, because it's like hiking, basically. You can't show up on Meru and start up the thing unless you have years and years of experience. Climbing and spending time on the mountains is really the only way you can train.
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People eyeing you as a potential leader tend to ask three questions: Are you committed? Do you care about me? Can I trust you?
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I never viewed money as being 'my money' I always saw it as 'the money.' It's a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.
