Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes
If it's genuinely new, when people are hearing it, they're not really gonna be comfortable because they haven't heard it a thousand times before.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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The difference between the hero and the coward is that the hero sticks in there five minutes longer
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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Calgary wins for my coldest New Year's Eve gig. That's when I learned Fahrenheit and Celsius cross at 40 below. I could see callers' breath coming out of my phone.
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He is still my father. He is still a person I know I could trust and he would never do anything against me. Once you're at the top, there are not many people like that. People always want something from you.
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In the end, I didn't get a dime of the money I was shortchanged.
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If it's genuinely new, when people are hearing it, they're not really gonna be comfortable because they haven't heard it a thousand times before.
