Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
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Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
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I don't get bothered by fans.
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The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
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God is everywhere.
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I played point guard my whole life.
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For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.
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I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.
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In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
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Whenever I Google for clothes, I always look at what Angelina Jolie is wearing. I love Sienna Miller, and I really like Rihanna's style, too. There's the edgy girl, classy girl, and the Bohemian chic girl. I guess I'm all of that combined into one.
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Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.
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$200, 300 million games, I'm a little scared about that; there aren't a lot of companies that have the resources or the courage to spend that much.
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When I sit down to write a song, there is no filter. I'm not trying to write for anyone or anything specifically. It's just trying to capture a little piece of your soul - even if it's a really ugly part.
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One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
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I never really had them. I always get the eccentric kids who dress funny and sit and write poetry for three months in their bedrooms......I was going to see tons of shows when I was a teenager, so if I was a girl, would that have made me a groupie? If I wanted to shake Thurston Moore's hand or something?
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I was going to clubs in Manhattan when I was 14.
