Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes
What was interesting about grunge was that it was this death sentence to the rock that had preceded it, which was hair metal.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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When you're a kid you're already trying to create your own world and organize the one in front of you, but then you get all insecure around 6th grade and don't think you have a right to share that.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I continued to suffer from anxiety and obsessive thoughts, although the thoughts stopped centering on hell. I moved into an ashram called the Himalayan Institute after college and studied meditation, which made an enormous difference.
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My parents realized the dangers of raising a daughter in a social, political, and legal climate that was growing increasingly oppressive toward women and girls. Although they fled to London when I was just three weeks old, the challenges facing women's rights in Iran became ingrained in my social consciousness.
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The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.
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When I was 15, I had a crush on this guy who was really good at magic, and so I learned to juggle, thinking it would impress him. I spent hours and hours practicing, planning to show him. And then I never even saw him again. But at least I learned how to juggle.
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You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.
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I even done a doo-wop version of the Mickey Mouse march.
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I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.
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'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.
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Here's what I'm going to have to say to all of you. If some of you have demons in your head who talk to you in profanity or whatever, don't let your demon shoot down your rock music, don't let your demon keep you off the joy bus. So like I say, Rock music pays off.
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He had a very clear vision of what he wanted to do artistically, visually, ... I wanted to be part of that vision. It seemed so beautiful and interesting.
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I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.
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While I don't know if I exist in the land of the elite, I'm definitely on the battlefield with restlessness.
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To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.
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What was interesting about grunge was that it was this death sentence to the rock that had preceded it, which was hair metal.
