Marc Maron Quotes
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I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
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As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible.
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I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.
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The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.
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Hopefully standup will become special again.
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Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.
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We certainly showed those Afghanis for what those Saudis did. But hey, can’t shit where you eat, you know?
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The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.
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When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon.
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For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.
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Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?
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I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.
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Do you think Beethoven had any inkling in even the darkest recesses of his unconscious, when he was deaf and sweating over his Fifth Symphony, that one day it would emit from some idiot’s pocket, and the response would be 'Fuck, it’s my mom'?
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It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.
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The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.
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Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.
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When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.
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Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.
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I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it.
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We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.
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I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.
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I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally.
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It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.
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I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did.