John Diamond Quotes
People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.
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When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
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Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper.
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When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it's because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it.
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The color of truth is gray.
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The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.
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I always get criticized for my clothing because I like wearing jeans and T-shirts. There's nothing wrong with dressing sexy. It's just I don't want to be anything that I'm not. I'm not here to be a fashion icon. I am here to make songs.
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But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future.
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People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.
