Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes
The initial notion for 'Check Your Head' was just all three of us getting back to playing instruments.
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I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
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When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.
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The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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I just love playing in major championships.
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I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.
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If ever we deserved a candidate at this moment in our culture, that candidate is Donald Trump.
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I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.
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I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.
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Yes, I love playing Mom.
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My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
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It's fun; baseball's fun.
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When you're in the head of the character, you feel less self-conscious. If I was just being me, I would feel so exposed and be like, 'Why is there a huge camera in my face?' But, when you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.
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Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
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Our cellphones can do everything, but they're bad at letting us talk to each other.
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Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
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I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.
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I'll win more games playing everyday in the outfield than I will pitching every fourth day.
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When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By 18, I was a lot better. Then I got a publishing deal, so I was writing songs for other people professionally.
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The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
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Say someone tells me their name - that name can turn into a taste or a color and that's how I categorize it in my mind. It's an easy way of categorizing things.
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I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!
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The initial notion for 'Check Your Head' was just all three of us getting back to playing instruments.
