Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes
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My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
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Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite know how to explain it. You see the uniqueness of what you've been doing, and disassociating yourself from it and going back to the 'normal' life is tough.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.
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Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
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And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
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Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I've had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
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No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.
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Every vote matters.
