Michael Ian Black Quotes

I think writing for anybody helps you order your life. It helps you arrange your emotions and your thoughts and it helps to provide perspective.

Michael Ian Black

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• When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • People
  • World
  • Optimistic

• When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • She
  • Story
  • Find

• In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Eye

• The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Important
  • Water
  • Serious

• At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Team
  • Employees
  • Teammates

• Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Morality
  • Truth Is

• Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Long
  • May
  • Think

• Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Why
  • She
  • Bad

• America is huge.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • America
  • Huge

• I am also hugely excited to then be competing to defend my three Paralympic titles at the Paralympic Games. I believe we will see some amazing times posted and I am very much looking forward to what will be an incredible Olympics and Paralympics in London.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Believe
  • Amazing
  • Looking Forward

• It's obviously disappointing and surreal when you see someone else win the Stanley Cup.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • You
  • Win
  • Cup

• If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Music
  • Never
  • Behind

• As an Indian, I would like to back my government.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Government
  • Like
  • Back

• Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Health
  • Achievement

• And come he slow, or come he fast,It is but Death who comes at last.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Death

• I can cry like Roger. It's just a shame I can't play like him.

  

  Andy Murray

• I think it's very important to support those who can't help themselves - children, animals - and especially to do so in your own neighborhood.

  

  Lori Foster
  • Important
  • Children
  • Help

• I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Up
  • Job
  • Unique

• Musicians have always adopted Macs.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails

• Greenlanders' heart is the environment. You can't sell your heart for oil.

  

  Aleqa Hammond
  • Heart
  • Environment

• The S.B.A. does not lend directly to businesses, but instead backs loans to encourage banks to invest in small businesses as part of a nearly $90 billion portfolio.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Small
  • Invest
  • Portfolio

• My literary heroes were mostly women writers and thinkers - Joy Williams, Joan Didion, Anne Sexton, June Jordan, Sarah Schulman, Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, Christa Wolf - and much of this writing was political as well as literary.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Political

• I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

  

  Francois Truffaut
  • Writing

• I think writing for anybody helps you order your life. It helps you arrange your emotions and your thoughts and it helps to provide perspective.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Writing
  • Perspective
  • Helping