Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes
It might shock you, but I haven't been to that many fashion shows, and I'd never done a commissioned piece for a fashion house.

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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.
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We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.
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I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
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I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.
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Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.
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I love Lancome's L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, as it lasts. Unless you spend the whole night snogging, you won't need to reapply it.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.
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I've been called everything. Gangsta rap. I've been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that's on them.
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I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of people.
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If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each time you sit down at the computer or with a pencil and paper in hand, somewhere along the way your writing will betray you.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching.
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It might shock you, but I haven't been to that many fashion shows, and I'd never done a commissioned piece for a fashion house.