Jim Diamond Quotes
I'm delighted to be Number 1, but next week I don't want people to buy my record, I want them to buy Band Aid.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.
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I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.
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I think the New Aesthetic is a series of observations. I think most of the trouble people have had with it comes from a misunderstanding of it as a movement.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that I'm acting.
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Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.
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'My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.'
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The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is what it is, but I look at it as a challenge.
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I'm not particularly prolific.
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I think that we are in a position to continue to make progress, but it's gonna require us to both recognize what the problems are, also recognize the progress we've made. Last point I'd make on this, since we're on criminal justice: During the course of my presidency crime has been the lowest it's been probably since the '60s.
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I'm delighted to be Number 1, but next week I don't want people to buy my record, I want them to buy Band Aid.
