Dan Harmon Quotes
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
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I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.
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No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.
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It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.
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I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.
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I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.
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When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.
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There are so many songs that I could not sing the way I wanted to. When such songs come on television or radio, I shut them off or leave the room.
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It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.
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I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
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Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.
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There is no room for Christians in today's Democratic Party.
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I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.
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I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.
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They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too much, even for a joke. ... Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.
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The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!
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Well, you know, I just - I believe marriage should between a man and a woman.
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Many have asked me, Why have a film festival in the middle of a war? But they have it backwards. The question is, 'Why have a war in the middle of a film festival?'
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What politics is all about today. Blah-blah-blah. The day that stops and the quality of our leaders improve, I will have to retire and go away.
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Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.
