Chris Hardwick Quotes

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• Worry is a misuse of your imagination.
• When you don't take an aggressive role in shaping your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, you become a helpless passenger floating through the universe like a…
• Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of…
• Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more…
• My father was one of the greatest professional bowlers of all time. Seriously. Billy Hardwick: PBA Hall of Fame, Player of the Year in '63…
• For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching to…
• I think when I look out and I see there's so much negativity in the world and a lot of people are unhappy and a…
• We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.
• Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy,…
• The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers.
• While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants, the reality is that bowling is one…
• Comment threads are the new therapy for people. They just go and post the worst things they can think of because they feel bad, and…
• Trying to make strangers laugh is crazy and more than a little narcissistic.
• The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.
• You can't throw money at the Internet to make it work - it really is all about the quality of the content.
• We are in niche consumption mode, but 'niche' doesn't mean 'small' anymore. Niche can mean focused, and particularly with the Web, which is a global…
• You don't need 30 million people to listen to your podcast. If 10,000 people listen to your podcast, which is not a hard number to…
• I think for a lot of people, bowling is sort of a joke. But I love it, and it means a lot to me, so…
• I don't know if I'm a Twitter addict. That seems kind of harsh. I would say it's more that I'm seriously involved. That it's a…
• We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the…

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