Louis C. K. Quotes
I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad.
Quotes to Explore
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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The ones who are successful are the ones who really want it. You have to have that inner drive otherwise it's not going to work out.
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I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
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A child gets vaccinated and soon after, autism symptoms emerge. The apparent cause-and-effect is understandable but erroneous - more a coincidence of the calendar and childhood developmental stages than anything else, as repeated and exhaustive studies have shown.
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I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad.
