Eugene Mirman Quotes

It's easy to sit on a mountaintop and tell people what to do and how to be happy. I have chosen to do that. Not because it's easy, but for a different reason, which I would reveal, if your mind was ready to handle it, which it isn't, which is also very convenient for me.

Eugene Mirman

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• One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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  • Question
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• I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • World
  • Great
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• Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • House
  • Picture
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• You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Up
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• Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.

  

  Becky G
  • Real
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  • Artist

• Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • World
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• You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.

  

  Karl Malone
  • You
  • Feel
  • Injuries

• If you fire people, you fire customers.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • People
  • Business
  • Fire

• No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Place
  • Economy
  • Changes

• You're going to a bunch of auditions, and most of the time you're just getting denied, but just staying in there and keeping my head and being determined helped. Growing is what's challenging; you have to constantly practice your craft.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Time
  • Growing
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• SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Time
  • Never
  • Direction

• My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky

• My dad taught me how to fish. When I am stand in a trout stream now, and I have the waders on, and I've got a fly rod in my hand, or I am fishing for bass, I think of sitting in a boat with my dad. How can that be a bad experience?

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Dad

• One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a problem with organized religion - usually a problem they consider to be of moral urgency.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • People
  • Free
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• Truth suffers from too much analysis.

  

  Frank Herbert
  • Truth

• Remember, in the vast infinity of life, all is perfect, whole, and complete... and so are you.

  

  Louise L. Hay
  • Life
  • Remember
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• I like to keep people guessing.

  

  Jerry West
  • People

• Irrespective of its size, Greece, with its intellectual heritage and the brilliance of Hellenism, together with the liveliness of its people, can contribute politically, morally and culturally to the realisation of the idea of a united Europe.

  

  Konstantinos Karamanlis
  • People
  • Together

• To amplify our efforts, USDA is joining with First Lady Michelle Obama in aggressively promoting the 'Let's Move' campaign, which will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Moving
  • Childhood
  • Strategy

• No matter how happy or hopeful I am, I always tend to drift back to that. It's underneath all the music I've ever written... An artist is trying to tell you how he's feeling. And if that accidentally becomes entertaining, it becomes a career.

  

  Don McLean
  • Music
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  • Happy

• It's cool to go places where working people are happy.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • People
  • Happy
  • Cool

• I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Family
  • Business
  • American

• If you're not prepared, and you're not passionate, and you don't push yourself to a level of human exhaustion on every level, mentally and physically and creatively... I've seen directors who approach it casually, and they do somehow maintain better hours... but I could never be that guy. I am up and editing all night.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Night

• It's easy to sit on a mountaintop and tell people what to do and how to be happy. I have chosen to do that. Not because it's easy, but for a different reason, which I would reveal, if your mind was ready to handle it, which it isn't, which is also very convenient for me.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Happy
  • Reason
  • Convenient