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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. "
Louis C. K.
I Am
People
Saying
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" I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.' "
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" I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad. "
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" You can't cancel my stand-up tours. It's impossible. There's too many separate bosses. There is no 'bosses.' "
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" If I do something for my kids, I get a medal, because most fathers don't. "
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" I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed. "
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" Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on. "
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" Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people. "
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" I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash. "
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" Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it. "
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" A lot of TV is put together by teams, by writing staffs and several different directors. It's a great, very smart way to make television. It's worked for however long TV's been around. "
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" My kids are really easy. I often worry that they're too easy to deal with. They're really nice people. "
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" A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much. "
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" I was a nerd growing up, and I'm a little antisocial and awkward. "
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Little
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" Everything that people say is testable. "
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" To me, art supplies are always okay to buy. "
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" The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness. "
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Gone
Direction
" Sometimes I try to take a nap before shows. That clears my head. "
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Head
Nap
" 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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Time
" Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go, 'Ugh'. "
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Eyes
Go
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" I don't believe in this idea of, 'That's hate speech, stop it.' "
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Speech
Hate
Stop
" There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it. "
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Home
You
Real
" I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of. "
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Great
Bored
" When I am in a hotel, and I turn off the lights and the TV, I just freak out. I turn the TV back on and don't get any sleep. "
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" My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, that I wasn't more careful about making sure that she was O.K. with it. I just sort of didn't ask. So that's how that goes. "
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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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" It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me. "
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" I get mad like anybody else does, but being able to laugh about getting mad is very healthy, and my kids know that. "
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