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.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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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.

  

  Warren Farrell
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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.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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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.

  

  Kat Edmonson
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• Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

  

  Madame de Stael
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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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• 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.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
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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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  Blake Shelton
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• There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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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."

  

  Michael Ian Black
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