Eugene Mirman Quotes

The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal as someone like Marc Maron or a lot of comedians, but they are essentially my life and my interpretation of it.

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• Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Pain
  • Body
  • Ready

• I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Different
  • Day
  • Mom

• When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Better
  • Hunting
  • Racing

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Like
  • Autumn
  • Hype

• Attack politics costs us dearly in terms of insight into the candidates. In a presidential campaign, the focus is so tight that the politicians are afraid to say anything that hasn't been scripted.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Focus
  • Politics
  • Presidential

• I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Body
  • View

• I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Friends
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen.. ..when you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.

  

  Carl Andre
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I didn’t at first because horror movies scared me too much, but I really do love the genre and it’s a playground where you can really be artistic and create ideas in the minds of the audience and portray the unreal. It’s very cool experimentation ground for a filmmaker.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Cool

• I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore
  • Character

• My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.

  

  Kenny Loggins
  • Life
  • Power
  • Moving

• I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Color
  • Grandmother

• All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.

  

  Binyavanga Wainaina
  • People
  • Soul

• Christianity is entitled to the tribute of respect. I do not of course mean that all individuals, nominally Christian, deserve trust, confidence, or even respect, for the contrary is too often the case. Too often, men hold religion as they do property - in their wives' names.

  

  David Josiah Brewer
  • Men
  • Respect
  • Trust

• Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great, the dead, and ourselves.

  

  Jane Leavy
  • Great
  • Honor

• The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them because they didn't refer to anything else. They stood alone, and they were just charged magic objects that did not get their strength from being connected to anything else.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Alone
  • Magic

• Should I worship Him from fear of hell, may I be cast into it. Should I serve Him from desire of gaining heaven, may He keep me out. But should I worship Him from love alone, He reveals Himself to me, that my whole heart may be filled with His love and presence.

  

  Sadhu Sundar Singh
  • Heart
  • May
  • Fear

• It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • Truth
  • Emotional

• It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

  

  Pierre de Fermat
  • Power

• There are many films in which minority groups are caricatured to the point where truth is all together lost. There are many more films, good in general, but untrue in their presentation of the Negro's life as totally divorced from the Caucasian's or the Caucasian's from the Negro.

  

  John Garfield
  • Life
  • Good
  • Truth

• The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal as someone like Marc Maron or a lot of comedians, but they are essentially my life and my interpretation of it.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Truth
  • Stories
  • Interpretation