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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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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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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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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I've always been a very prolific writer.
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The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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I admit I'm arrogant but not that arrogant - my arrogance is cool.
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There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.
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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.
