Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes
Wine needs to have a context in a social gathering to fulfill its historical place in this world.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.
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Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.
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To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.
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I'm a big guy: I look like a linebacker, you know? But no one cares, really, that I'm educated. I have a copy of 'Fire Next Time' by James Baldwin in my bag. I have an Ibsen play in there, too. I have to walk through this world with that duality all the time, that I live in two different worlds.
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If somebody's gonna stab me in the back, I wanna be there.
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Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world. People respond to a certain down-to-earthness that I have, and that's purely as a result of coming from Birmingham.
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I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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Wine needs to have a context in a social gathering to fulfill its historical place in this world.
