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" People don't talk to me on airplanes. "
Louis C. K.
Me
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" There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a therapist in profession. She lets me talk to her like a therapist once in a while, and she does a great thing. Whenever I have a big dilemma, like this is a big problem in my life, she always says, 'Wow, you're going to have to figure that out.' "
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" I think I'm past any window where I'm suddenly going to become surprisingly ripped so that people go, 'Oh, my God, what happened to you?' "
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" I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women. "
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" The only pitch I have to movie people is the same as this one: Just give me $8 million. I'm not telling you what it's about and I'm not telling you who's in it. "
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" When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I'm like, maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we're walking around with a donkey with pots clanging on the sides. "
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" I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out. "
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" There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say. "
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" I definitely look at my body and I go: 'Yuck.' "
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" People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not. "
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" I like pressure. Pressure doesn't make me crack. It's enabling. I eat pressure, and there might be times when I get a bad feeling in my gut that this might be too much, but you feel pressure when you're not doing something, you know? "
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You
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" A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody. "
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" Most people are dead. Did you know that? It's true, out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. "
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