Marc Maron Quotes
In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
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I'm very happy alone.
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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
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People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
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There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.
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The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'
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Here in America we so are for family values, yet insurance companies do not cover all fertility procedures.
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The concept of making a movie in which the director dictates is kind of exotic - and absolutely not truthful. Directing means allowing a great deal of collaboration and listening and having the ability to change your mind.
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One of the most talented, smartest people happens to be my wife, so I can get great advice from her. She obviously knows me incredibly well and what I'm going through. I don't know that I've been as helpful to her as she has been to me.
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In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.
