Eugene Mirman Quotes

I just loved comedy as a kid and I think at some point, it just occurred to me that you could try it, and I did.

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• I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Film
  • Loved

• If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Want
  • Golf
  • Aging

• It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Different
  • Character
  • Movie

• I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Careful
  • Adventures

• 'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Power
  • Funny

• Once you start to try and calculate why you were cast and why you weren't, you get in trouble.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Why
  • Start
  • Try

• I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and it's in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • Think
  • Disaster
  • Ship

• Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Commitment
  • Virtue
  • Blind

• Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I hope I don't die crossing the street.' It's all me, me, me. 'What do I want to eat? What do I want to do?' But when you have a baby, and you would just happily stand in front of a bus to save her, it's a ferocious commitment to protecting your charge.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Kids
  • Hope
  • Die

• To farm is to be placed absolutely.

  

  Wendell Berry

• Pig, n. An animal (Porcus omnivorus) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Animal

• I wear my pajamas. That's the thing I love most about writing. I don't get changed until I actually have to go out of the house. I'll write and take a late lunch or go to a coffee shop when I get where I can't stand the four walls anymore.

  

  Kimberly Willis Holt
  • Writing
  • House
  • Coffee

• A Deap Vally renaissance is going to begin next year and will be our focus for the start of 2013. They will blow the cobwebs off a music scene that has become just a little bit stale.

  

  Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons
  • Music
  • Focus
  • Blow

• Although the story of George and Lennie in 'Of Mice and Men' ends on a depressing note, there is a peculiar aura of human dignity in it, a hint of redemption.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Men

• To bolster his right flank and attract women voters, John McCain had cynically opted for a running mate who was, by any stretch of the imagination, unqualified for a position a heartbeat away from the presidency.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Women
  • Running
  • Imagination

• So much of what we do addresses the issues that are associated with climate change, whether it's working to reduce emissions, whether it's working to nail down our renewables, whether it's ensuring great efficiency in accessing all of our energy sources.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Great
  • Energy

• Mmmmmmmm. Anderson. He's dreamy. Just dreamy. I've been a fan of his since season 1 of 'The Mole.' I just thought he was so cool when he talked in this cool, low, secret-agent voice.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Cool

• Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.

  

  Jerry B. Jenkins
  • Believe

• Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

  

  Joe Montana
  • People
  • Up
  • Nice

• I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.

  

  Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • Work
  • Real
  • Kids

• It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Science
  • Education
  • Technology

• Why have one chandelier when you can have two?

  

  Candice Olson
  • Why
  • You
  • Two

• I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.

  

  Jamaica Kincaid

• I just loved comedy as a kid and I think at some point, it just occurred to me that you could try it, and I did.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Comedy
  • Kid
  • Occurred