Louis C. K. Quotes
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I had many, many mentors that I worked with. Music teachers, choir directors, directors in summer stock or in regional theater. You know, people I was able to work with repeatedly and learn from who were really sort of appropriate people for me to work with at a given time in my development as an actor.
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I don't think you should exploit your own pain.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
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I'm usually listening to Sirius Satellite in the morning. 'The Heat' usually plays good music.
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If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.
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I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
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High-quality public education - combined with other appropriate support, as needed - is the best way to achieve the Oregon Business Plan's goal of reducing the number of people living in poverty.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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Advice? Look at your pay statements.
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The giant was hairy, the giant was horrid,He had one eye in the middle of his forehead.
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We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment. Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to ORDER.
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A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.
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The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.
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Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
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It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.
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We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.
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You have to like the characters you play.
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I grew up doing a lot of theatre, plays, dramas, musicals.
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In historical messianism, the reign of the Messiah is brought about by a Jewish ruler powerful enough to gather the Jewish exiles back to the land of Israel, reestablish a Torah government there, and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem.
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We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand, and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you could hold onto that flame, great things could construct around it, that are massive and powerful and world changing, all held up by the tiniest of ideas.
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Sometimes I try to take a nap before shows. That clears my head.
