Daniel Lyons Quotes
'Silicon Valley' likes being satirized. They've all been waiting for someone to come along and make fun of it.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.
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Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.
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I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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Investments are a real partnership, with an expected return; donations are a gesture made as a result of ethical, religious, or political passions.
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People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.
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Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.
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Most comic writers like to think they could play it straight if only their public would let them. Waugh is able to be grave without difficulty for he has always been comic for serious reasons. He has his own, almost romantic sense of propriety.
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They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
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I definitely want to go out and explore different personalities and different people.
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The obligation of any judge is to decide the case before the court, and the nature of the issue presented will largely determine the appropriate scope of the principle on which its decision should rest.
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A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell. From nowhere we come, into nowhere we go. What is life? It is a flash of firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
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'Silicon Valley' likes being satirized. They've all been waiting for someone to come along and make fun of it.
