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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By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.
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I'm very good at making mistakes, so I realized that I should embrace mistakes and learn from them.
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Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.
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I was doing publicity for 'The Getaway'; people were coming in from all over the world to do six-minute interviews.
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By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
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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.
