Eugene Mirman Quotes

It's weird - the cab driver is playing very loud dance music and yet it doesn't really feel like a party.

Eugene Mirman

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• Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Experience
  • Political
  • Blind

• It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Son
  • Grandson
  • Landowner

• Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Think
  • Alone
  • Thought

• I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Home
  • She

• Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Country
  • Growing

• I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is the only way you're going to get true eclectic music programmed.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Music
  • True
  • Guy

• Try everything with an open heart, looking to fall in love.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Fall

• If our children are becoming teenagers who are abusive, have mental health issues, and are committing heinous crime, it only means that we have failed them as a society. We have failed to give them a safe, nurturing environment to ensure that they are well-balanced, useful persons in the society.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Children
  • Society
  • Health

• Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Great

• When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Worry
  • Fool

• I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Work
  • Money
  • Deep

• I love character actors. If I'm switching channels, and something with Slim Pickens is on, or Walter Brennan, I'm stuck. I have to watch it.

  

  Les Claypool
  • Character

• People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.

  

  James Daly
  • People
  • Success

• A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath no strife or contention with any man about religion.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • True
  • Christian
  • Simplicity

• I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield

• There is a huge misconception that if you do something like hot yoga, you'll burn more calories, and the opposite is true. You want to heat your body from the inside out, not the outside in.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • True
  • Yoga

• I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.

  

  Kyra Sedgwick
  • Great
  • Real
  • Respect

• Every little pocket of Los Angeles County is almost like its own state. It has its own way of being and own way of feeling, and parts of it feel like the Midwest, and parts of it feel like the East Coast. It's a rich tapestry.

  

  Marcia Clark
  • Feeling

• Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people waiting to do it.

  

  Rick Astley
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Army

• It's very rare that you get a part that you actually like. People have a misconception, whether it be because actors lie or because you're reading interviews from giantly, massively famous actors, but you don't just get offered parts, all the time. You actually have to work to get them.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I was playing with pencils while the other girls were playing with dolls.

  

  Sasha Pivovarova
  • Playing
  • Pencils
  • Dolls

• It is sometimes fun when you party and listen to those fun songs but they don't have a lot of meaning behind them.

  

  Amanda Ava Koci
  • Party
  • Songs
  • Meaning

• It's weird - the cab driver is playing very loud dance music and yet it doesn't really feel like a party.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Party
  • Playing
  • Dance Music