Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes
I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.
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Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
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Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.
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You should always care about what you're eating because it's your body, and you should always want to eat healthy foods, but dieting tactics in Los Angeles are really confusing. There are so many different weird diets out there.
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I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast - and put a very weird twist on them.
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To me, it's weird when people review improv at all.
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The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
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When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
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Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
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My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.
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Flirting is funny. And it's awkward and weird.
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I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.
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I walked out of 'Harry and the Hendersons.' Harry bugged me; I don't know. Yeah, it's weird because I think Sasquatches are great, but not then. Maybe not that weekend - I don't know. I don't know what it was.
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My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.
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I like pop music, and I like really weird, strange stuff. It just didn't feel like there was anyone doing both.
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I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.
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I get nervous all the time. The only time I'm not nervous is onstage, which is weird.
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'Zorn' goes to some pretty ridiculous places, but the real comedy is coming from these little observations about life that are not as outlandish as some of the bigger moves in the story. This is a guy who has magical relics and fights weird monsters and is also dealing with very basic work and family things.
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It is of great concern that the fabric of African life, its very source of hope and stability, is threatened by divorce, abortion, prostitution, human trafficking, and a contraception mentality.
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One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.
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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
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I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.
