Dan Harmon Quotes
I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.
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Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.
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I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of that - but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn't exist.
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We know that people are less open in conversations if the other conversant puts a cell phone on the table. Even if it's turned off. The sign is enough to close the mind and make a prospective client or lover less likely to do what you ask. As people realize this, they'll start putting away phones or turning them off.
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Be sure that you first preach by the way you live. If you do not, people will notice that you say one thing, but live otherwise, and your words will bring only cynical laughter and a derisive shake of the head.
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I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.
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I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.
