Michael Ian Black Quotes

I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.

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• The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Words
  • Question
  • Goal

• It's funny how you can be thought of as somebody who humanizes bad guys, and I'll take that, but it is something that gave me pause, and I started speaking to my team about finding a good guy.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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  • Bad
  • Guy

• If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Religious
  • Dangerous

• My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Friends
  • Animal
  • Affinity

• When you have a specific vision for something, you just go in and attack it.

  

  Christina Aguilera
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• I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.

  

  Christina Aguilera
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• Speaking about myself, I've been pleasantly surprised that my older plays are still being performed. Most important is that they still have something to say to today's audience, in particular the young people who enjoy my plays. That's the best I could hope for, that the plays aren't single-use products of one era.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • Important
  • Hope

• Take me or leave me, I'll never be perfect. Believe me I'm worth it

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Believe
  • Perfect
  • Humble

• We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.

  

  Loretta Lynn
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  • Used
  • Halloween

• Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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• For me at this time in my life I recognize that everything is about moving closer to that which is God. And without a full, spiritual center - and I am not talking about religion, I am talking about without understanding the fullness from which you've come you can't really fulfill your supreme moment of destiny.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Artist
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• The happiest times in my life were when my relationships were going well -- when I was in love with someone, and someone was loving me. But in my whole life, I haven't met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I'm discontented about that. I'm angry with myself. I have regrets.

  

  Billy Joel
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• There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

  

  Elizabeth Smart
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• The first lesson my kids got about the ocean was to respect it. You can never turn your back on the ocean when you're dealing with tides and currents - factors beyond your control. You have to be the CEO of your family on the water. CEO stands for 'constant eyes on,' and it's something I never forget.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Respect

• My communication with aliens is not verbal - we speak the language of light.

  

  Valeria Lukyanova
  • Light
  • Communication
  • Aliens

• For all of us who have been involved in the recovery efforts to bring back and strengthen wild salmon runs, we fear that this change in policy could lead to further declines in these wild stocks.

  

  Norm Dicks
  • Effort
  • Recovery
  • Salmon

• All the doors that I had to close. All the things I knew but I didn't know. Thank God for all I missed. 'Cause it led me here to this.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
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• I would say that it is a trait by which Americans, searching for things which are different or new, seem to recognize the gift that people may have that cause people do to things.

  

  Emilio Pucci
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  • May

• I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.

  

  Michael Ian Black
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