Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes
I kind of idolized older punk-rock and hip-hop bands, and I was, like, 15 when I started the Beastie Boys. And what business did we having doing that at that age?
Mike D
The Beastie Boys
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At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south.
Ilyasah Shabazz
I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.
Cameron Crowe
A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
Umberto Eco
People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
Ian Watson
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
Ted Koppel
I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
Yvette Nicole Brown
I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
Frances McDormand
You get some directors, and I can never understand it - there's a thing they call the 'video village' where all the monitors are, and you've probably seen it on set visits - I hate that! I never, ever like sitting in video village. I get either my own monitor or a hand held monitor, and I stand right by the camera.
Edgar Wright
When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
Carly Fiorina
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
Felix Adler
I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
Padma Lakshmi
The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of the Jews, rather than that he was a superior being.
Lysander Spooner
The American people deserve a blueprint for policymaking that is built upon the Constitution of the United States and the principles of fiscal discipline, limited government, accountability, and a strong national defense.
Jason Chaffetz
I don't mind talking about my family and how to balance it all. But, in today's world, we should probably be asking both women and men about work and family and how to balance the two.
Kelli O'Hara
Growing up, I cooked in the house, and when I cooked, everyone would sit down and eat, and it was just kind of the way I connected with my family.
Kimbal Musk
I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
Raghav Bahl
I kind of idolized older punk-rock and hip-hop bands, and I was, like, 15 when I started the Beastie Boys. And what business did we having doing that at that age?
Mike D
The Beastie Boys
