Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
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Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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I thought of Jeff Bridges in 'Hell or High Water' and Ben Foster, and I kept trying very hard not to, because you're terrified you're going to write this thing that then feeds specifically to this one person that then won't do it.
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
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We just want to see entertaining, exciting games, and we want the officials to do a good job.
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I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.
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To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.
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I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.
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I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.
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I was definitely a Daddy's boy.
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
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I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd been writing every day for years.
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The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.
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Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.
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My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
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We are exercising our constitutional right to be fresh.
