Dan Harmon Quotes
I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.
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Primordial feelings provide a direct experience of one’s own living body, wordless, unadorned, and connected to nothing but sheer existence. These primordial feelings reflect the current state of the body along varied dimensions, . . . along the scale that ranges from pleasure to pain, and they originate at the level of the brain stem rather than the cerebral cortex. All feelings of emotion are complex musical variations on primordial feelings.
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Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.
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A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
