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" When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage. "
Louis C. K.
Young
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" Some things I think are very conservative, or very liberal. I think when someone falls into one category for everything, I'm very suspicious. It doesn't make sense to me that you'd have the same solution to every issue. "
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" To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction. "
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" To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me. "
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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 was an awkward kid. "
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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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" I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself. "
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" I'm not a political comedian. That's just not what I do. "
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" When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes. "
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" It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive. "
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" For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money. "
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" I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed. "
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" It's hard to know where your thoughts come from, especially when you have a thirst for material because you need it professionally. "
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" I like being full, every day, with stuff that I have to do. "
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" America's a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out. "
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" You know, the people who do indie film and decide who gets those little budgets? They're mean, man. They're cold and very cool-oriented. "
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" I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard. "
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" Anytime you see a bit where some stranger does something to me, it's 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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" 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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" You can't direct without a good crew. "
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" Perception is created and twisted so quickly. "
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" Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff. "
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" I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through. "
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" Life is full of horrible mistakes. "
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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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" Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much. "
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