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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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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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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You can only do so much theatre.
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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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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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The best way to look at any business is from the standpoint of the clients.
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When Scandal had a top 20 video, no one knew what I looked like. I had all this stuff on me.
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Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.
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We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex.
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To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
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If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.
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I thank God that I'm a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I'm grateful that I know where I come from.
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The press doesn't just cover presidential campaigns, they influence them by making arbitrary decisions about who is 'top tier' and merits coverage.
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The inspiration to write a song comes to me when something has happened to me more than once. If it's happened to me more than once, it's probably happened to other people.
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What people don't understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone too fat; it's not a nice feeling.
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I was in a lot of bands growing up.
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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.
