Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes
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True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.
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For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
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There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's your passion to sing, then that's what will get through. I think if you don't have that, you'll realise quickly.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.
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I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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Measure a man by his actions fully, from the beginning to the end. Don't take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I'm about, because you know better than that.
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It's an honor to see that green jacket in the bedroom closet, but I'm not going to become somebody else because I won the Masters.
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I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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I fear -as far as I can tell- that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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Someone had an eye on me as I was leaving high school. I had a chance to record demos, but they were kind of wanting to make a pop singer out of me, of the 'X Factor' variety. I didn't feel comfortable with it. I wanted to be a songwriter.
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Real life is much c than fiction, man.
