Michael Ian Black Quotes
The thing about narcissistic people is that they don't think they're being narcissistic.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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I was born on TV, meaning that's where I caught my break. So that's where I always have to be smart and revisit that medium as much as I can.
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Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.
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Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
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The imperfections in my family made me learn to deal with things on my own and solve problems for myself.
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The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
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I do believe, whenever this is all said and done, we won't talk about Mickey Gall, the guy that beat CM Punk; we'll just talk about Mickey Gall, the guy who is a top 10 fighter, a good welterweight or maybe a great welterweight.
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I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. People who do not want writers to write about violence want to stop them writing about us and our time. It would be immoral not to write about violence.
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I hate short hair on men - the 'real' man is something I don't know. My dad was always playing with hairbands, making rings, while the women were wearing jeans, white T-shirts and Converse. That was the uniform at home.
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It's hard to take people seriously who say you're totally irresponsible if you go out and climb mountains when you have kids, because they clearly don't understand the circumstances. You can't impose your own acceptance of risk on other people - that's not fair.
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I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.
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I grew up where the repercussion of you having an opinion was being 'cocky,' or people would be mad at you. And I have finally learnt that it is better for them to be mad at you and disagree than you be so mad at yourself all of the time for not speaking up.
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The action pictures I've been typically involved with, when somebody gets punched, you really feel the punching, and when somebody gets shot, you really feel the shot.
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The thing about narcissistic people is that they don't think they're being narcissistic.
