Tig Quotes

#1. I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.

Kate Flannery

#2. I know people have tattooed my 'Sons of Anarchy' photos, they've painted them, on their bikes. I've seen a few of those, sent to me through friends, where they've actually taken my 8x10 Tig photo and put it right on their bike.

Kim Coates

#3. In 27 years doing this, I've seen a handful of truly great, masterful standup sets. One was Tig Notaro last night at Largo.

Louis C.K.

#4. When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.

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#5. I'm one of those people that, when I read or get encapsulated by a world, I want to live and breathe and be there.

Nick Willing

#6. Basically I'm a female human being with brown hair, enjoy precision, reading the news, eating delicious food with my delicious friends and laughing at ridiculous things that don't translate while you are desperately trying to make them.

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#7. Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

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#8. in scuba diving, going down and staying down are not the difficult bits, (a brick can do that.) Coming up again is the part that requires skill.

Simon Pridmore

#9. The schools must fashion the person, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you wish him to will.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#10. I didn't have an interest in school at all and was getting in trouble all the time.

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#11. I worked at restaurants and coffee shops and babysitting and just whatever I could do to make money.

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#12. My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

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#13. People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

Laurie Anderson

#14. I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).

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#15. I didn't like to stop playing for a second to bother with eating or going to the bathroom. I was a really skinny kid, and I remember my mother always telling people, 'I don't know how she's alive. I think she gets all of her nutrients from air pollution.'

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#16. I was talking and playing pranks and skipping school, failing pretty much every class I took.

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#17. Clarity of vision - what you've been looking at from the wrong angle and not seen at all.

The Edge

#18. The impact of space activities
is nothing less than the galvanizing
of hope and imagination for human life continuum
into a future of infinite possibility.

Vanna Bonta

#19. There's very few shows that truly reflect specific ethnic experiences, and when they come and come right, they're a hit.

Aeriel Miranda

#20. There's times when I just have to quit thinking ... and the only way I can quit thinking is by shopping.

Tammy Faye Bakker

#21. I'm fascinated by caddy Buddhists popping up all over Hollywood and people that take themselves too seriously.

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#22. It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.

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#23. When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.

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#24. When thou shewest Respect to any one, see that thy Submissions be proportionable to the Homage thou owest him. There is Stupidity and Pride in doing too little; but in over acting of it, there is Abjection and Hypocrisy.

Max Frisch

#25. Grown-up people do very little and say a great deal ... Toddlers say very little and do a great deal ... With a toddler you cannot explain, you have to show. You cannot send, you have to take. You cannot control with words, you have to use your body.

Penelope Leach

#26. Daring greatly is not about winning or losing. It's about courage. In a world where scarcity and shame dominate and feeling afraid has become second nature, vulnerability is subversive.

Brene Brown

#27. It's almost embarrassing how much support I have. I mean, I always tell people I feel like I'm perfectly set up to have cancer. I have great health insurance, I have a savings account. I have work lined up. I have friends and family. I have the best doctors I can get.

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#28. As a kid, I loved Paula Poundstone and Richard Pryor. But my mother was a huge influence on my comedy.

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#29. I was really into music. I started playing guitar also when I was nine. I wanted to be in the Beatles, even though John Lennon died the year I got a guitar and the Beatles broke up before I was born.

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#30. Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Erich Fromm

#31. I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic.

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#32. Comedy was a secret want, but it wasn't anything I pursued.

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#33. Reminding myself that I have a tailbone keeps me in check.

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#34. O Zeus, why did you give men certain ways
to recognize false gold, when there's no mark, no token on the human body, to indicate which men are worthless.

Euripides

#35. I'm the luckiest unlucky person.

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#36. I am just at tragedy right now.

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#37. I'm not a religious person; I'm not even, like, a spiritual person.

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#38. I don't do romance, in the same way I don't do heroin Russian roulette, or nude alligator wrestling. I consider all of the above self-destructive, and demeaning and these are things up with which I will not put.

D.D. Barant

#39. My career has always kind of moved forward and upward. I've never had anything kind of stall out or go in the opposite direction. I've always kind of been moving in the right direction.

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#40. I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it.

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#41. One of my favorite songs is 'Ghost' by Indigo Girls. Emily Saliers wrote that, and she is one of the most talented songwriters ever.

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