Michael Ian Black Quotes
Internet fame is like regular fame only without all the annoying 'money' and 'power.'
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My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.'
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.
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What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.
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Our economy's growth functions by inciting us to produce more and more with each passing year. In turn, we require cultural forms to enable us to sort through the glut, and our rituals are once again directed towards the immaterial, towards quality and not quantity.
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You can't beat a Diane Von Fostenburg wrap dress; I always tend to go for the wrap dresses with a little more structure. I also love Prada shoes.
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I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.
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As you grow older, your music begins to mature and grow older along with you.
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We filmed 'Expelled' in Santa Clarita at an all-girl's school. There were twelve hour days.
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When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.
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Cheryl's artistically inclined. She draws and sketches, but I don't know about acting.
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We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.
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One of the marvelous blessings of the Book of Mormon is that it contains, in clarity, revelations reserved to come forth in this dispensation of time. Much of the knowledge that we have relating to the principle of moral agency is found in these modern revelations.
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Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.
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What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
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Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.
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It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.
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That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
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There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
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Internet fame is like regular fame only without all the annoying 'money' and 'power.'
