Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes
Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subjective practice. That's sort of the funny thing about wine criticism or, for that matter, music criticism. At times, those are useful guides, but ultimately it's all about how you react to that music or wine.
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.
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I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.
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It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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I don't own cable, but my TV came with a Netflix button.
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I'm beyond thrilled to be working with Faber, whose literary history is second to none. And I'm even more excited to bring my books to a wider audience in the U.K.
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I never enjoyed being the star-man because as soon as you become the focal point of the team, you assume an extra burden of responsibility.
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The E.U. is very popular in Estonia, and for very good reasons - not because Estonia has received considerable support from the E.U., but because Europe supports the values which keep small states safe in this world.
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Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subjective practice. That's sort of the funny thing about wine criticism or, for that matter, music criticism. At times, those are useful guides, but ultimately it's all about how you react to that music or wine.
