Quotes & Jokes by Louis C. K. / page 10
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.
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.
I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.
It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.
The Greatest Generation gets too much credit. Those World War II guys, if they had all the shit we have today, they'd be assholes too. It's just circumstantial. It's what you're called on to do that makes you great. We haven't been called on to do anything but buy shit and get fat.
I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.
"I'm bored" is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.
A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.
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.
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.