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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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'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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I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's books can be mind-stretchers and imagination-ticklers and builders of good taste in a way that adult books cannot, because young people usually come to books with more open minds. It's exciting to be able to contribute to that in a small way.
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I believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on everything they do is unpatriotic. I believe a patriot stands up and holds your government's feet to the fire. Because if you do that, you will get good government.
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Interscope Records has always been a heat-seeking missile when it comes to shifts in popular culture, whether inciting them or reacting to them swiftly.
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Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level.
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I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
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The very first thing on the docket is to have the opportunity to travel to look at spiders in other parts of the world. I know there are really cool silks out there.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
