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'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.
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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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We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.
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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.
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I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.
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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.
