Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes
With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.
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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
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A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
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I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
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We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.
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When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.
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My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place.
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I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.
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I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do the music and if people like it, they like it.
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I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.
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A lot of time, people don't do great things becoz' great things really aren't expected of them.
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You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.
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You know how children are, sometimes they love you by cuddling you, other times by trying to remake you from the start, reinvent you, as if they thought you were badly brought up and they had to teach you how to get on in the world, what music to listen to, what books to read, what films to see, the words you should use and those you shouldn’t because they’re old now, no one says that anymore.
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With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.
