Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes
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In Europe and Sweden, we see boobs on TV, and it's not a big deal. Everyone has them; everyone has seen them.
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We've never made progress in this country or in this state by lowering expectations.
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Twitter helps me connect to the people who help make my music, or the cycle of an album, complete. Without them experiencing the music, it doesn't really exist, so it doesn't make sense to not involve them.
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I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.
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I don't play the bass. I'm not in a band. I tried to think of ways I could touch base with the troops and support what we're doing.
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For me, being part of the WTA tour is a privilege. Every day I wake up, it's a privilege to be able to go outside and do what I love. It's a privilege to be able to make my own hours, even though they're long, but I make them.
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Even in the busiest kitchen, there's always a point at the end of the day when you go home.
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A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.
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Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.
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What view the bill-sticker and sandwich man take of the subject I have yet to learn. The first is, at least, no bad substitute for a hanging committee, and the clothes of the second are better company than somebody else’s picture, and less obtrusive than a background of stamped magenta paper.
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While, legally and constitutionally, speech may be free, the space in which that freedom can be exercised has been snatched from us and auctioned to the highest bidders.
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The Internet requires evolved forms of governance that we haven't figured out as a planet. I'd love to help make that easier and make that possible.
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Every good story is about who we are and our struggle to define ourselves.
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All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.
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'The Muppets' is really about innocence and charm and sweetness and light and having hope - and stupid gags.
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If I'm down about something or having problems with something, I can write it down and get it out.
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When I moved to Los Angeles, I figured I'm really going to make an attempt to become a real actor. And when I did that, I thought it was time for me to face my parents and tell them what I did.
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My characters have to talk, or they're out. They audition in early scenes. If they can't talk, they're given less to do, or thrown out.
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Nobody sets out to make a bad record.
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As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.
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To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook him into science fiction, then you've got the future secured.
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An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined.
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I'll do my best, ... That's all I can promise.
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We never set out to be superstars.
