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 grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.
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I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.
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Some people are songwriters, and some people are just recording artists. I'm both. I write and record.
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I don't really like over-explaining the songs. Everyone constantly asks what the songs are about, and I think the thing is that the songs definitely all have stories in them; it's just nice to let people decide what they are. I think it's important that people hear it themselves rather than having me annotate it.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
