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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This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
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Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a point where alphabetical order has gone obsolete. Wikipedia is ostensibly in alphabetical order, but, when you think about it, it's not in any order at all. You use a search engine to get into it.
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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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Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
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I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.
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This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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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."
