Michael Ian Black Quotes
With stand-up, you can be as freeform as you want to be. You can say what you want, how you want, at any moment without constraint.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.
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As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good for something.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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Infosys demonstrated to the world that an Indian company could implement standards of quality, operations, finance that compare with the best. That is a legacy I am happy with.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
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The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court - a war that began with a conspiracy against Richard Nixon by Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Abe Fortas and Lyndon Johnson.
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There is no protection against slander.
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As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process.
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I've struggled so much, growing up, with just feeling that my life is valid because it's not filled with these hyper-dramatic moments, and I think a lot of people of my generation feel that way. We're so inundated with hyper-drama that people crave everyday life.
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A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
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With stand-up, you can be as freeform as you want to be. You can say what you want, how you want, at any moment without constraint.
