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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Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
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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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Focus equals feeling.
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When I was growing up, it was the guys who were hardest at school who got the prettiest girls. It's a status thing.
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... the more the mind dominates, the more the ego comes into play, and the further people depart from their true inner self. So all the technological advances in the world mean nothing if people feel a spiritual void inside of them.
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In 1967, London Weekend Television asked me to head up their sports coverage. I got to work with guys like Brian Moore and Dickie Davies. We were the first ones to come up with the idea of the pundits' panel. Although, since I was one of the pundits, it's debatable how good an idea that was.
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I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.
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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.
