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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'Let Me Love You' is about being brave enough to let a person get close enough to you to teach you how to love yourself, to teach you the importance of loving yourself.
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I would love to do a chick flick sometime soon, a film with strong female characters - when I say strong, I don't mean that they are changing the world, but just be real women.
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At a label, you are confined to the team you have, but I did all my solo work myself, and that makes you more agile and able to go into weirder corners.
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You know, also I, you know, I was on those birth control pills and my breasts were like, they hurt... and, you know, it was like they blew up like. You know, they wouldn't fit into any of my dresses. I had to quit taking those birth control pills... This was like - I mean they were like, I thought they should be photographed really... So they were, for immortality. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)
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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."
