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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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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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
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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 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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A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.
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Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.
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I have personally believed in every product I have ever advertised.
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I genuinely don't know how many albums I'm going to sell when the new album comes out, because I honestly don't know how many fans I've actually got at the moment.
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I guess I'd just been thinking about it for so long that I forgot changing your gender was not even a question for most people. They just took for granted being a boy or a girl. I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be so sure of yourself.
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The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. They really don't. I know it seems like they do because we look alike, but people don't speak in dialogue. Their lives don't unfold in a series of scenes that form a narrative arc.
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Guys have to look up to somebody. Everybody needs to have their own role and somebody has to be the star.
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All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?
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With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.
