Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes
Thinking about the cold weather in England... Don't be afraid to rock the David Niven look.
Quotes to Explore
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'd go an do the sequel if they asked me to.
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When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt like a bit of a husk. And I remember thinking, 'I need to spend some time in one place, and just be at home.' So I guess the first year of that three and a half years was spent just trying to kind of get back to normal again.
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There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.
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We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'
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It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'm supposed to follow, or the Fantasy Police might come and make me do hard labor in the Cold Iron Mines.
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There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him.
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Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I'm thinking that maybe we'll have a future where Google is 'xkcd.'
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Among physicists and chemists, cold fusion - nuclear fusion at close to room temperature - enjoys a reputation about on par with creationism.
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Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!
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We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.
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I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
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Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
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No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.
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In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.
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The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money.
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My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.
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Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.
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Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.
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In high school I had a boyfriend who was super into rap, so I was into Too $hort and Wu-Tang for a little while. And my best friend's older brother would sometimes drive us home in this pimped-out truck, and he'd play all his dirty rap music. We thought we were really cool.
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Thinking about the cold weather in England... Don't be afraid to rock the David Niven look.
