Seth MacFarlane Quotes
The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.
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I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money.
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My worry about this exclusive focus on Trump - the personality and how all of this is so unprecedented - is that then the solution seems to be, 'Well, we'll just get rid of Trump.'
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
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Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
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What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.
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Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
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I worry unnecessarily.
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I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.
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I would love to do Broadway again.
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'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day and, when the mix was done, feeling like I wanted to hear it over and over again. It was the comprehensive sound of the thing: the song itself, its character, the way the instruments sounded, and the way Tom Scott's tight horn arrangement fit in.
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You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.
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The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
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To me, I think justice is part of forgiving, if it is well done with love.
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Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
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If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture.
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I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.
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When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.
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Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.
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Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.
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Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
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The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.
