Louis C. K. Quotes

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Louis C. K.

Profession : Comedian

Birth : September 12, 1967

I don't believe in this idea of, 'That's hate speech, stop it.'

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I was a nerd growing up, and I'm a little antisocial and awkward.

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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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It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.

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Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.

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I'm enjoying the work while I get it right now.

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I don't have a brother in real life.

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I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from.

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I could never sit down and write jokes.

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Pushing the envelope' sort of implies that you're inside the envelope with everyone else, and you're trying to find the edges on the outsides.

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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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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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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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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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I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

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I was an awkward kid.

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I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

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Oh, I love stand-up.

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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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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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