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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out.

Louis C. K.

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Louis C. K.
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: September 12
Actor
Cabaret Artist
Comedian
Dancer
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Singer
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Tecamac Municipality
Louis Székely
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Anytime you see a bit where some stranger does something to me, it's me.
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The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.
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I watch a lot of sports. But when I'm not working, I'm with my daughters every chance I get.
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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'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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Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.
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I just love learning. I think learning is how you live. The verb of my life is learning.
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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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Human kindness has no reward. You should give to others in every way you see. expect absolutely nothing from anyone. It should be your goal to love every human you encounter. All human suffering that you're aware of and continues without your effort to stop it becomes your crime.
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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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Here's how my brain works: It's stupidity, followed by self-hatred, and then further analysis.
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Stand-up is probably the most solo performance in art.
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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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I was raised by a hard-working single mother, so my first role model was a woman. My only caretaker was a woman, and I have three sisters, so my community was girls. I have two girls, and my dog is a girl. My dead dog was a girl. I don't know. I guess I've always keyed in on that perspective.
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You know the only thing happier than a three-legged dog? A four-legged dog.
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The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.
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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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There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.
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One time I was at a swimming pool with my kids, a public pool. I had my daughter, my six year old, on my arm like this. She was like clamped on, and she's kicking. ... And then she got off and another random child just clamped on. It's like a rat. Get off of me. But I love you. I don't know you, kid.
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I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.
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