Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes

For 'Paul's Boutique,' we had a lot more money and a lot more time. It was definitely more on our own terms.

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• If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
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• To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.

  

  Hans Hofmann
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• Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.

  

  Sam Yagan
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• It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.

  

  Kate Burton
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• I had no desire to crash a man's world.

  

  Ida Lupino
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• Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
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• Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.

  

  Edmund White
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• There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.

  

  Francesco Totti
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• I don't talk in ifs.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
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• Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.

  

  Jack Keane
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• It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.

  

  Madison Marlow
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  • Country
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• I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it's a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, 'Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right,' and not have to say, 'Well, you decide.' Then it would be like I'm an idiot.

  

  Brown Campbell
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• The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

  

  Carl Bernstein
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• I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
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  • Period

• Buildings are forms of performances.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Buildings
  • Forms

• You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

  

  Craig L. Thomas
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• I get that people are worried about their mortgages and bills that have to be paid. They don't have time to worry about the Syrian refugees, and I get that. The thing about it is, when it gets worse and worse and worse and down the line, it's no longer restricted to these places.

  

  Liam Cunningham
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  • Worry

• It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.

  

  Walter O'Brien
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  • Animal
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• Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Friends
  • Death
  • Right

• I'd much rather be in the world than in some ivory tower somewhere.

  

  Andrew Garfield
  • World

• For 'Paul's Boutique,' we had a lot more money and a lot more time. It was definitely more on our own terms.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Time
  • Money
  • Have