Eugene Mirman Quotes
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
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The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.
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TED Women will focus on the ideas and innovations championed by women and girls. These cover everything from community development to economic growth to biodynamic farming to robotics to medical treatments to the use of technology for personal safety and peace making.
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I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
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When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.
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The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.
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I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.
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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
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Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.
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I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.
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Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.
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Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
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The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to do with breath and life force, the mysteries of the ancients and all this. The word is very suspect in much of the art world - the Western art world. Certainly, spirituality has become divorced from religious.
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When you say documentary, you have to have a sophisticated ear to receive that word. It should be documentary style, because documentary is police photography of a scene and a murder ... that's a real document. You see, art is really useless, and a document has use. And therefore, art is never a document, but it can adopt that style. I do it. I'm called a documentary photographer. But that presupposes a quite subtle knowledge of this distinction.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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I create my own backstory regardless of if I'm told something about the background or not. There's always more that you can develop in your head that makes a character more layered, more honest.
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I don't emphasize the whatevs. I say it as if it's truly a toss-away word.
