{"author":"Michael Ian Black","author_id":"Michael+Ian+Black","total_quotes":5,"quotes":[{"text":"I do not go to church. I don’t go to Christian church or Jew church or any other church. I don’t go to church at all. Not ever. A perfect Sunday for me is spent drinking green tea while reading the Sunday New York Times. Yikes! Why don’t I just turn in my Al-Qaeda membership form and call it a day? As if that wasn’t bad enough, not only do I not go to church:I don’t believe in God. How can I say the Pledge of Allegiance if I don’t believe in God? How can I spend our American currency which pledges “In God We Trust?” How can I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, so help me God? Answer: I can’t. It’s a real problem. Don’t get me wrong – I’d like to believe in God. I wish I did, especially if He was the kind of God that thought America was #1. But I don’t, which to many people is the same as not believing in America. Up until recently, I thought those people were lunatics.","author":"Michael Ian Black","tags":["al-qaeda","atheism","atheist","belief","blog","funny","humor","jew","jewish","opinion","separation-of-church-and-state"],"id":1529,"author_id":"Michael+Ian+Black"},{"text":"The thing that I think is the most important is taking moments to express your appreciation to your partner. A thank you or a quick kiss can go a long way toward affirming your relationship and commitment to each other. That's not hard to do even when you're juggling insane careers and three kids.","author":"Michael Ian Black","tags":["appreciation","thank you "],"id":65301,"author_id":"Michael+Ian+Black"},{"text":"I don't watch that much comedy. I think it's professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community.","author":"Michael Ian Black","tags":["community","support "],"id":309399,"author_id":"Michael+Ian+Black"},{"text":"All the work that I do, whether or not it ends up being commercially successful or not, feels like the most important thing to me while I'm doing it. I try to take something away from every project, and so they all feel like milestones for one reason or another.","author":"Michael Ian Black","tags":["successful","me","doing "],"id":314058,"author_id":"Michael+Ian+Black"},{"text":"I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'.","author":"Michael Ian Black","tags":["marriage","believe","think "],"id":436657,"author_id":"Michael+Ian+Black"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}