Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.
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Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height - or to slouch.
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Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.
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Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all.
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We're doing what we want to do, and that's why the kids respect us.
