Michael Ian Black Quotes

I think people hate me pretty much across the board, which is nice.

Michael Ian Black

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• Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • House
  • Man
  • Born

• You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Attention
  • Study
  • Waiting

• It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.

  

  Larry David
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Depression
  • Mental Illness

• I no longer limit myself.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Myself
  • Limit
  • Longer

• I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Comfort Zone

• I am unable to give my best if I don't have my best to give.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Best
  • Give
  • Unable

• I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Important
  • Song
  • Me

• We launched DirecTV Now. Our 5G evolution plans and improved spectrum position are paving the way for the next generation of super-fast mobile and fixed networks.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Generation
  • Evolution
  • Plans

• It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Speak
  • Knowing
  • Pause

• The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.

  

  Abdullah Ibrahim
  • People
  • Problem
  • Africa

• Although I started off as a child artist, I left acting in between, as I felt that I was missing the fun of school days. But a little later, I became keen on acting again and started going for auditions.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • School
  • Fun
  • Child

• So many designers only sketch and leave pattern-making to others. Pattern-making is important so you know the structure. Then if someone tells me, 'I can't make a pattern from that sketch,' I can tell them, 'I will make it' and then they are quiet. If I can't make it, I don't design it.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Important
  • Me
  • Design

• They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Write

• We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Hope
  • End
  • Management

• I don't get claustrophobic.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Get
  • Claustrophobic

• I'd love to have a Christmas classic under my belt. It's hard to write a Christmas song.

  

  Patty Smyth
  • Song
  • Christmas

• A child's own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child.

  

  Margaret Wise Brown
  • Good
  • True
  • Dream

• You’ll hate me,” she said, her arms locked around him because she couldn’t not hold him when he was close. “One day, you’ll hate me.” It was the thing she most feared. Hand fisting in her hair, he pressed his forehead to her own, his eyes night-glow in the dark. “I will love you until the day they put me in the earth.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • She
  • Night
  • Earth

• I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Hate
  • Eye

• Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.

  

  Michael Arrington
  • Political
  • Hate
  • Reason

• I think people hate me pretty much across the board, which is nice.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Hate
  • Boards