Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes
I'm the first to admit that we were totally dependent on a particular place and time... for us, seeing Minor Threat at the CBGB hardcore matinee was just as necessary a force in our lives as the Treacherous Three at Club Negril or the Funky Four + One More at the Rock Lounge.

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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.
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The miracle of Good Friday is that there was no miracle. Legions of angels stood - with swords sheathed - watching as the Son took our place.
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I met Beckett at my brother’s place. That was a Big meeting, in capital letters. It was before war started, life was still normal. That time I was very lonely. We saw each other often. Before the war he had published already something, but his fame came in 1953. We never spoke about his work. He was a taciturn man. Sometimes a word escaped from his mouth. Sure, a word you would never forget. It would stick in your head... This friendship with Beckett is the most important experience in my life. He was fully alive for my way of working. What he could express in words, I did with my paintings.
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Do all you can with what you have in the time you have in the place you are.
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I'm the first to admit that we were totally dependent on a particular place and time... for us, seeing Minor Threat at the CBGB hardcore matinee was just as necessary a force in our lives as the Treacherous Three at Club Negril or the Funky Four + One More at the Rock Lounge.