'Parks and Rec' is definitely a mainstream show - the group that watches it on TV on Thursday night is small, but the audience that watches it on things like Hulu, Netflix, and Tivo is enormous.
I think the networks, in general, have to evaluate what's happening around them. I'm sure they're scared about a lot of things: Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, and all these places that allow people to watch shows in chunks.
This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path.
I'm like, 'Why aren't artists owning their masters? Why are labels robbing artists dry, and they have to spend all this time on tour to even break even?' Like, what happened? Why are they promoting things that aren't either socially conscious or elevating the human consciousness?
We've been merging with tools since the beginning of human evolution, and arguably, that's one of the things that makes us human beings.
We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.
'Star Trek' speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow - it's not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans.
There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.
Why do we write novels or make television about real things? It's the human condition and human suffering.
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
The human voice is one of the most attractive things.
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
I think, and I mean this sincerely, I was raised humbly. We were a lower middle income family and a household that was scrimping by at times. We were watching the dollar, stretching the dollar, and coupons. It was all those things.
For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.
Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.
It's a liminal thing, humming, And I'm always interested in liminal things.
No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
I'm scared of things that I can't see that can hurt me, you know.
In my past, I said and believed things that were wrong and - worse - hurtful to the LGBTQ+ community and their loved ones.
