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.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Like
  • Try
  • Just

• 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.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Me
  • Person

• We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • May
  • Say
  • Flowers

• Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • World
  • Men
  • Woman

• A teacher should have a creative mind.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Mind
  • Teacher
  • Creative

• You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Think
  • You
  • Going

• 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.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Present
  • Find
  • Partner

• 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.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • World
  • Children
  • Community

• I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Sunday
  • Superstitions
  • Socks

• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Political
  • Spiritual
  • Islam

• 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.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Knowledge
  • Thing
  • Teaching

• If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Women
  • Mean
  • Heroes

• Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Happiness
  • Scratch
  • Itch

• 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.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • View
  • Beliefs

• When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Home
  • Play
  • Never

• There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Power
  • Bigger
  • Aphrodisiac

• Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Live
  • You
  • Streets

• No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.

  

  Lemon Andersen

• Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly. From the zenith to the horizon the still-dim Milky Way stretched its double strand. Night, fresh and quiet, almost unstirring, enveloped the earth. The white towers and golden domes of the church gleamed in the sapphire sky. The luxuriant autumn asleep till morning. The silence of the earth seemed to merge with the silence of the heavens and the mystery of the earth touched the mystery of the stars.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Freedom
  • Silence
  • Mystery

• …the whole world here breathed easy concupiscence…

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • World
  • Easy
  • Here

• Same with souls. They can't survive without a body for long.

  

  Alex Chiu
  • Long

• I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.

  

  Benazir Bhutto
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• 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.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
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