Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes
The bottom line with a lot of bands that funk is being applied to is that they don't really listen to funk and aren't versed in funk. Like, you know, Gordon Lightfoot.Mike D The Beastie Boys
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People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
Beck -
I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.
Naveen Andrews -
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.
H. P. Lovecraft -
A second time, after many years, I was taken captive. On the first night I accordingly remained with my captors, but I heard a divine prophecy, saying to me: 'You shall be with them for two months. So it happened. On the sixtieth night the Lord delivered me from their hands.
Saint Patrick -
I think it was a generous thought, and one that fow'd from an exalted mind, that it was not improbable but God might be delighted with the various methods of worshipping him, which divided the whole world.
Alexander Pope
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Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.
Livy -
Ich denke an dichte Fenster! Kein anderes Land kann so dichte und so schöne Fenster bauen.
Angela Merkel -
'Yellow Face' marks my summation of multiculturalism.
David Henry Hwang -
I grew up on Loretta Lynn and Dusty Springfield. I remember lying about it; it wasn't cool to listen to country when I was 12.
Jenny Lewis -
I lived in Germany from when I was 6 until I was 10, so, of course, I played soccer. When I came back to the States, nobody played soccer, and none of the schools taught German, so I couldn't continue to excel in those categories.
Kevin Nealon -
I didn't record 'Pumped Up Kicks' out of a sense of moral obligation.
Mark Foster Foster the People
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One of the best things Gwyneth Paltrow has done in years was her mesmerized, good-sport cameo in a 'Pootie' sketch, when she was melted over him like butter on an English muffin.
Elvis Mitchell -
I always accessorize with jewelry. I am a bit of a magpie; I love sparkles, and so wearing jewelry makes me feel more exciting and confident, too!
Amber Le Bon -
I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project.
Douglas Wood -
For special wrestlers, there's somewhere else to go - as long as you're not brainwashed by that WWE mentality. There's other worlds out there; it's OK to switch around.
Jeff Hardy -
I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the rest, especially with novels. I'm not a book-club style reader. I'm not looking for life lessons or wanting people to think I'm smart because I'm reading a certain book.
Chris Abani -
I am a forthright defender of the right to bear arms - which is guaranteed not only by the U.S. Constitution, but by the Constitution of Arizona.
Doug Ducey
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If you look hard enough for something, you'll probably find it even if it's not really
Jeremy Miles Ferguson Amen -
Under any system of society ... the family holds the future in its bosom.
Charles Franklin Thwing -
I saw how you could get away with such a free-spirited, naturalistic sensibility in a mainstream Hollywood movie, and you could apply a lot of the skills of the '70s icons that I really admire to a contemporary, commercial movie.
David Gordon Green -
Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.
Edward Rutledge -
The bottom line with a lot of bands that funk is being applied to is that they don't really listen to funk and aren't versed in funk. Like, you know, Gordon Lightfoot.
Mike D The Beastie Boys