Michael Ian Black Quotes
My fear is if I expose myself, not so much that I'll be hurt, but that the reaction will be "Is that all there is? Is that the entirety of you? Because it's boring."
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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Think and grow rich.
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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There was a time when caddies couldn't wear shorts.
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Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
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Like so many of the players, I started at La Masia at the age of 11. I can't ever imagine not playing for Barcelona, let alone not playing soccer for a career. I don't ever want to play anywhere else.
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No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.
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When I tend to belt, it kind of reminds me of like a more '60s girl doo-wop kind of belting.
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war,Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
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I wanted to see the score! What do you got to do that's so important? You can't join the religious cult with me!
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I want to have a record with Beyonce or Lady Gaga. They are both my inspirations. Especially Beyonce.
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Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing!
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I don't really get nervous anymore unless there's a big interview.
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In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.
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Oh – what's the bloody point?
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Being in London has really taught me how important history is. Just having information of the past. It helps you predict the future, which is all we really have as, you know, humans.
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I have seen without perceiving I have been another man Let me pierce the realm of glamour So I know just what I am.
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more sociable. But the whole thing was quite sore; it really hurt me trying to get into drama school. It was a world I knew nothing about - it was very middle class; all that usual stuff. But I was young, determined, and I just went for it.
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My fear is if I expose myself, not so much that I'll be hurt, but that the reaction will be "Is that all there is? Is that the entirety of you? Because it's boring."
