David Harsanyi Quotes
For Philistines like me, the mysteries of Washington can be both perplexing and wondrous.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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People always ask me about 'Girls' with this kind of hesitation. What do I think of it? I love it. It's awesome. I get a lot of Where do you come down on this? I come down on the side of 'Yay, Lena Dunham. Congratulations. I'm jealous.' She's doing something so fantastic. Maybe it's not for everybody, but it certainly is for me.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July.
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In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.
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When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress. I'd say, 'No way. I'm going to be a veterinarian. I'm going to work at Wetzel's Pretzels.'
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.
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When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.
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I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.
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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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One night stands are not for me. I think it's gross when you just give it up.
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No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
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John Conyers' office has been very responsive to citizen concerns and the Internet has presented a way to communicate with them in a way that's never before been there.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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He wasn't very good and he had on African pants, so the kids were making fun of him and killing him. But three months later, he was killing them.
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All the videos we have done have been our ideas, our concepts. We're a very conscious band of the way we present ourselves onstage and the artwork for the record and everything like that. So every time we do videos, it's the same thing. We sit down with the director and have him make our vision come true.
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For Philistines like me, the mysteries of Washington can be both perplexing and wondrous.
