Michael Ian Black Quotes

Wish I could, through my own financial prestidigitation, transform a dollar bill into two, or two million. It is an awesome and mysterious skill.

Michael Ian Black

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We never said the U.K. is in bad shape if it leaves the E.U.: we said the E.U. would miss a massive opportunity. Without the U.K., the E.U. may never be able to stand up against superpowers like China and the U.S.

Joe Kaeser

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I wanted to remind myself and others of the old Jim Crow, so that we can remind ourselves that we're still living in the new Jim Crow. I feel it's important to dress in the fashion of the times.

Jidenna

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Part of me is stuck in my childhood in the Eighties. I actually watch 'The Neverending Story,' 'Labyrinth,' and 'Legend' over and over again. Also, 'Willow' and 'The Goonies.'

Jesmyn Ward

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Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

Jerry Brown

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I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy.

John Barton

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As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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You need the commitment of people that aren't worried about that next election, who are going to do the right thing and worry about the next generation. It's called political courage. And I can tell you, with me, you don't have to ask whether I have political courage.

Jeff Fitzgerald

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I spent grade nine and ten going to school in Victoria. My parents lived there for 10 years.

Sophie Hawley-Weld

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I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans.

Michelle Bachelet

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I have to have the 'umph.' I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren't going to feel it either.

Janis Joplin

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I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn't start to love it until I was 14.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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