Louis C. K. Quotes

If I owned a network, I would never let a guy just put people on without telling me who they are.

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• I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Time
  • Music
  • Same

• After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Respect

• I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Life
  • Done
  • Mistake

• Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Why

• Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Knowledge
  • Risk
  • Doing

• If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • America
  • Military
  • Financial

• At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

  

  Carl Spitteler
  • Up
  • Father
  • Law

• People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Personality
  • Smiling

• Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Mistakes
  • Capitalism

• We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Time
  • Joy

• Women just love to shop.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Women
  • Love
  • Shop

• Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • America
  • Medical
  • Bankruptcy

• The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Teacher

• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Food
  • Control
  • Living

• Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• I think that our comfort is in our history.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • History
  • Think
  • Comfort

• I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • Good
  • Balance

• People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • People
  • Person
  • Certain

• Science is a quest for understanding.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Science
  • Understanding

• Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Discipline

• There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Friends
  • Father
  • Things

• I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Period

• They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Success
  • Thought
  • Started

• If I owned a network, I would never let a guy just put people on without telling me who they are.

  

  Louis C. K.
  • People
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