Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
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Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
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Muslim girls, we love fashion! Whether we wear the hijab or not - it's our choice - and it's time the industry took note. Finally, fashion stores are open to that idea.
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We're not Seattle East. We're our own Atlanta, and there are definitely things I learned from Coach Carroll. He had probably the single biggest influence on my coaching career.
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There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
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I have tried to make all my acts and commercial moves the result of definite consideration and sound judgment. There were never any great ventures or risks. I practiced honest, slow-growing business methods, and tried to back them with energy and good system.
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I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
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I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one of the greatest writers ever, is Mark Twain. Yes, yes, yes. And Whitman, from whom the whole of 20th-century poetry sprung up. Whitman was the origin of things, someone with a completely different outlook. But I think that he's the father of the new wave in the world's poetry which to this very day is hitting the shore.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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Yauch was a gifted MC.
