Dan Harmon Quotes
Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
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I've known Mark Hughes for half a lifetime. We joined Barcelona in the same summer of 1986, played together under Terry Venables and Luis Aragones, and have kept in touch ever since.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
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I think that designers and architects need to educate the people who don't quite know what they do and make a strong case for why it's valuable and why it changes the game. I think waiting for people to come around to it just won't do.
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Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that's not the way men work.
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Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.
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When it comes to our public services, decentralisation means giving power back to those on the front line - our doctors, nurses, teachers and physiotherapists, and our locally elected officials.
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I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
