Jim Diamond Quotes
I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late.
Quotes to Explore
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'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don't even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that, it doesn't get you very far at all.
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This is kind of weird, but I eat lemons with salt as snack. They're so good!
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I'm an early-morning owl.
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I didn't feel very attractive as a child and actually I wasn't.
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
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I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.
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My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
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If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don't. I always see where I didn't do things the right way.
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Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
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The fact is most computer roleplaying games that offer a zillion highly specialized skills end up with nine-tenths of a zillion skills that every player quickly realizes aren't worth the experience points to buy.
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Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.
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I've done a lot of other shows in the U.S. that have been great, but I knew that 'Roadies' was something special. I feel very, very fortunate.
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It's the adventure, the adrenaline-flowing, risk-taking in outdoor activities that attracts me.
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When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16.
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'O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed.'The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea-cup opens A lane to the land of the dead.'
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None can usurp this height...But those to whom the miseries of the worldAre misery, and will not let them rest.
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I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher kind of geared me more towards opera.
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The title came rather early in one of Ringo's more tired and emotional moments.
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It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.
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I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late.
