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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To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
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I wrote 'Torches' before experiencing touring as a band. I really had no idea what they would sound like live, and that was something we had to figure out along the way.
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For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
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Music has always been in my family down to my dad through my uncle. I'm just the next generation, since it's always been around me when I was younger when I looked up to my mom and dad, to Michael Jackson, and B2K was my favorite band growing up.
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Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.
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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.
