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Michael Ian Black Quotes

My first real break was when my college sketch troupe, The State, was asked to contribute pieces for a new MTV show called 'You Wrote It, You Watch It.'

Michael Ian Black

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: August 12, 1971

Topics

College You New Sketch First Real

If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.

Jim Henson

Color Difference Anything Us Working

I'm Polish, I carry no grudges.

John Dingell

Grudges Carry Polish

The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.

Tom Robbins

Fast Trouble Go Sometimes Movement

It is an established principle of jurisprudence in all civilized nations that the sovereign cannot be sued in its own courts, or in any other, without its consent and permission; but it may, if it thinks proper, waive this privilege, and permit itself to be made a defendant in a suit by individuals, or by another State.

Roger B. Taney

Privilege Without Own Suit May Made

When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I was a translator for a missionary group, and I spent years in a Tijuana dump. People were really thrown by the fact that the Mexican poor, many of them pureblood indigenous people, seemed happy.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Work Happy People Literature Doing

As long as there is a new twist in the storyline, there cannot be any space for monotony.

Divyanka Tripathi

Space Long New Twist Cannot Any

My first husband ran off with Elizabeth Taylor.

Debbie Reynolds

Husband First Off Elizabeth Taylor

Place and displacement have always been central for me. A type of insecurity goes with that: you are always following the cues, like learning the dance steps when the dance is already under way.

Claire Messud

Learning Dance Me Insecurity You

The cleanest book on a dusty bookshelf is usually a dirty one.

Ashwin Sanghi

Book Dirty Bookshelf Dusty Cleanest

Everybody kind of looks to comedians and comedy for relief and a fresh breath about what is going on in the world.

Sean Hayes

World Comedy Looks Kind Fresh Going

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

Thomas Huxley

Wise World Injustice Up Sentimental

Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it.

Timothy Noah

Constitution American Without Rule