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.

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• Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Imagination
  • Enemy
  • Politics

• Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Like
  • Kindness
  • Loving

• 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.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Friends
  • Child
  • Classmates

• The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Chinese

• Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Why
  • Words
  • Moment

• A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Health
  • Care
  • Modern

• There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Angry

• 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.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Children
  • Family
  • Jerusalem

• 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.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • World
  • Happy
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Knowledge
  • Thing
  • Teaching

• Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Religion
  • Modernity

• I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Music
  • Me
  • Decisions

• 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.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Poor
  • Insulting

• I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Life
  • Great
  • Real

• Our government should not be spying on the electronic communications of American citizens. Nor should our iPhones or Android devices be subject to unreasonable searches and seizures.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • American
  • Government

• Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.

  

  Veronica Franco
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Death

• To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Science
  • Me
  • Sense

• One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Space
  • Office
  • Everyone

• Since we've done that type of work [ voiceover], we know how isolating it can be, and we wanted to make the actors more comfortable.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Work
  • Done
  • Actors

• I have 1.4 million followers on Twitter. I get very interesting, sometimes very diverse input from my followers. So it's sort of like this water cooler, digital water cooler, if you want to think about it, where you go and you listen to conversations that are happening that perhaps will shape your thinking.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Interesting

• I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself.

  

  Missy Franklin
  • Reading
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Want
  • Moments
  • Constraints