Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes
I wanted to create this dialogue between music and visual art and vice versa. No matter what part of the spectrum they fill, whether it's visual, music, or whatever, artists are interested in other art forms. Your brain is already kind of firing in that way.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
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The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
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As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
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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'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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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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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.
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Art raises its head where creeds relax.
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Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.
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Without Satan, with God only, how poor a universe, how trite a music!
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I think it is very natural to want to be partnered, but you never know. you read about mature love affairs in the press, and it gives you hope. You think: 'Well, it's not impossible.'
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Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.
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I wanted to create this dialogue between music and visual art and vice versa. No matter what part of the spectrum they fill, whether it's visual, music, or whatever, artists are interested in other art forms. Your brain is already kind of firing in that way.
