Michael Ian Black Quotes
I was very surprised how many people were earnestly reminiscing about the '80s. It's such a stupid thing to do, like, to be honestly invested in nostalgia. It never even occurred to me to do that.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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You can only do so much theatre.
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To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.
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Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history.
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I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.
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The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger ones also in the fact that Ireland is exceptional in its ability to make theater part of the national dialogue, and it reaches to all four corners of the country.
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If neither love nor pain Will ever touch thy heart, Then only God's in thee, And then in God thou art
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As soon as you're willing to humble yourself and say, God, please help - then you can find out that His strength really is perfect, that He really does care for you, that He does really want to meet your need.
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I went over to the Sargent, said, 'Sargent, you got a lot a damn gall to ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I'm sitting here on the bench, I mean I'm sitting here on the Group W bench 'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after being a litterbug.'
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I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
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Audiences deserve better.
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I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
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I've been impressed, obviously, with what Israel has done over the years, as it related to technology, agriculture, research in general.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.
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I was very surprised how many people were earnestly reminiscing about the '80s. It's such a stupid thing to do, like, to be honestly invested in nostalgia. It never even occurred to me to do that.
