Michael Ian Black Quotes

You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a lot of rules there, literal and implied, that you have to navigate.

Michael Ian Black

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• You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Time
  • Different
  • Country

• The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

  

  Salvador Dali
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• I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
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  • Fan
  • Yankees

• If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
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  • Frozen

• I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

  

  I. M. Pei
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• I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

  

  Frances Mayes
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• You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • World
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• The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

  

  Peter Eisenman
  • Choices
  • Architecture

• Architecture is definitely a political act.

  

  Peter Eisenman
  • Political
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• I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater.

  

  Dante Ferretti
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• I am involved in the architecture of space.

  

  James Turrell
  • Space
  • Architecture

• Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

  

  Jeremy Renner
  • Good
  • Architecture
  • Obstacles

• And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

  

  Arne Jacobsen
  • Today
  • House
  • Deep

• It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Important
  • Truth
  • Architecture

• Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

  

  Charlie Daniels
  • Good
  • Business
  • Game

• To me it's like starting all over, ... If you've watched any of the games I've played at the point guard position, it's honestly hard for other teams to stop it, because I'm putting pressure on guys. We don't always have to come down and rely on getting points off a set offense. We get a chance to run up and down the court and get a lot of easy baskets.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Up
  • Stop
  • Games

• Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Good
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• I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.

  

  Zaha Hadid
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  • Architecture
  • Agendas

• When I'm up there, and I know the show's coming to a close, in my head I'm saying to myself, Oh man, you gotta get off and be a normal person again. That's what I don't like so much.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Up
  • Men
  • Knows

• The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible.

  

  August Macke
  • Senses
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  • Comprehensible

• Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Believe
  • Focus
  • Positive

• I can't imagine ever doing anything else with my life. It's definitely a challenge but when you accomplish something it feels great!

  

  Amanda Stott
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Accomplish

• You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a lot of rules there, literal and implied, that you have to navigate.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Games
  • Architecture
  • Shows