Michael Ian Black Quotes
You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents batty. It has to be compact. Nobody thinks about the parents when they write these stupid books. I could write longer children's books, but it would actually be bad if I did.
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How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.
Caitriona Balfe
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I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.
Candice Olson
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God invented love, and it is therefore perfect, and dogs are better at celebrating this perfection than we are. When in doubt as to how we should feel, we could do far worse than trying to live life like the dogs.
W. Bruce Cameron
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
Frances Wright
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
Vin Diesel
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
Eddie Marsan
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
Ban Ki-moon
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
E. O. Wilson
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
Viktor Orban
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
Quentin Crisp
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Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.
Irvine Welsh
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I live by a rulebook of eating alkaline - no meat, no dairy, no gluten, I try to stay away from sugar - but I'll cheat when I want to since I'm a bit of a foodie.
Kate Hudson
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It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.
Randy Quaid
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Earl Wilson
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Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'
Gary Ackerman
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I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is.
Kara DioGuardi
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'I am a seasoned field surgeon having survived some five hundred campaigns,' said Siri. ‘I was educated in France and I speak three languages.’ ‘Four if you include double-Dutch,’ said Civilai.
Colin Cotterill
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In so far as it goes, such movement is to be welcomed.
Ian Paisley
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I don't want music to be a job for me; I want it to be something I'm doing for fun. As long it's not a job, then you're straight.
Astro
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I just think a lot of movies are too long. I want to know how to make my movie as tight as possible.
Jonathan Levine
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You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents batty. It has to be compact. Nobody thinks about the parents when they write these stupid books. I could write longer children's books, but it would actually be bad if I did.
Michael Ian Black