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 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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I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.
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People aren't for hitting.
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The worst part of what we heard Donald Trump say has been about nuclear weapons. He has said repeatedly that he didn't care if other nations got nuclear weapons, Japan, South Korea, even Saudi Arabia. It has been the policy of the United States, Democrats and Republicans, to do everything we could to reduce the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
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We should never forget that Hollywood was built by Europeans, and the old Jewish boys from Eastern Europe.
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It feels bad to play a bad guy. I did George W. Bush for years, and I hated him. But you have to give full voice to the villains. You have to have really convincing villains, or it's not worth anything as drama or comedy.
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He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
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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.
