Marc Maron Quotes
The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming.
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Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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I don't do meetings.
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.
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I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
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There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana and, right now, I'm that icon.
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A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.
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I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.
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We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies.
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What I can't figure out is why we're not making more R-rated movies, actually.
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You're at a party or an event, and you're interacting with other people, but there's no shame in getting your camera out and getting your perfect angle. It's bizarre to me.
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There are some really interesting celebrities and people who are fun to interview, but when you have to do it every day because you have to fill a slot, the allure wears off.
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We know too little about how life began on Earth to lay confident odds. It may have involved a fluke so rare that it happened only once in the entire galaxy. On the other hand, it may have been almost inevitable, given the right environment.
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The best design is the simplest one that works.
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I remember my first meeting with Guillermo Del Toro - he couldn't have been warmer, but I always had a kind of immaturity about me dealing with people that were in charge. Not really knowing how to conduct myself. And I got on the floor and curled up into a ball under a desk, which is so weird - as I was doing it, I was like, "Oh, my god, you're a freak. Get up. What are you doing?" And I looked at him like, "I'm so sorry," and he's like, "No, it's natural. Why wouldn't you want to do that?" He's just the most giving person and made me feel not like a freak.
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All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen.
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Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.
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The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming.
