Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes
Japan is brilliant for vinyl. There's all this rare stuff that I've been looking two years for, and you walk into a store, and you find it straight away.
Quotes to Explore
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My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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Love is more than one thing.
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The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.
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It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.
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I have had that same experience where there are several people who have come up in my life at the right time and have made critical contributions to how I see the world and how I see myself.
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Michael Johnson, so I'd say they are my favourites.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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My workout involves cardio, jogging, and yoga as well. I am a firm believer of yoga and meditation.
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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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...we can only add to the world, where we believe it ends, more parts similar to those we already know (an expanse made again and always of water and land, stars and skies).
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Japan is brilliant for vinyl. There's all this rare stuff that I've been looking two years for, and you walk into a store, and you find it straight away.
