Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes
What a lot of the world missed was just how caring New York became post-9/11.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.
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I always pretend like I'm nervous no matter what. I try to fall asleep.
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I'm terrified of babies I think, creatively as a woman, you change once you give birth. I'm totally not ready for that.
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I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
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What a lot of the world missed was just how caring New York became post-9/11.
