Michael Ian Black Quotes

My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob. And proud of it.

Michael Ian Black

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• Player
• Sports
• Winning
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• Boring

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• It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Career
  • Media

• Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Mind
  • Cool
  • Violence

• I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Live
  • Running

• I am at a stage where I want to be known as a versatile actor.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Actor
  • Stage
  • Versatile

• It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Job
  • Popular
  • Results

• The great love of my life is music.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Great
  • Music

• I never really did any disco dancing.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Never
  • Dancing
  • Disco

• Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • People
  • Think
  • Environment

• The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Experience
  • You
  • Impossible

• When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Music
  • Business
  • New York

• The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Teach
  • Opinions
  • Conformity

• I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Think
  • Like
  • Half

• So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • Men
  • High
  • Think

• People always give me styling products and stuff.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • People
  • Always
  • Stuff

• The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Art
  • Enemy
  • Limitations

• I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • World
  • Work
  • Happy

• There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • Women
  • Strong

• We're going to be human, and we are going to make mistakes, but you really should understand the power that you have and embrace it in a positive way.

  

  Drake Bell
  • Power
  • Positive

• If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Kindness
  • Records

• But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing — a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.

  

  George Smoot
  • Simple
  • Universe
  • Perspective

• All of us in Fiji, the Government and the people, are very proud for what you have achieved in reaching the finals of this year's Hong Kong Sevens.

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • People
  • Government
  • Proud

• I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Earth

• My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob. And proud of it.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Proud
  • Player
  • Sports