He's really likable and sincere, and he's very easy to be with. He certainly wasn't easygoing in the studio. He's a passionate, obsessive person, like I am. But I have so much respect for the guy. He's talented, and he knows music and he brings a fresh perspective.
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Related Every time hes supposed to be here, hes showed up, BRENDA JONES Hes ready to go every morning. He runs right over to the cruiser, PETER GOULD My brother went to New Orleans when he was 19, ... Hes 72 now. BARBARA UPTON God is always on time, it may not be the time you are expecting, but hes on time. Just like he said ... ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE Hes the smartest dog Ive ever had, PETER GOULD Hes doing better than what we thought. JAMIE KING I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES [Senior Rob Hudson sustained his good form with a 3-under par 33 to earn medalist honors for the var... ALEX ADAMS No one will remember the kick in the balls if hes bleeding everywhere... NATHAN ELMO MELO Jenny, she's aw weet, peer body,
Jenny's like to cry;
For she hes weet her petticoats
In... MISS SUSANNA BLAMIRE AND MISS CATHERINE GILPIN Hes learned to never trust anyone with his heart. People lie, cheat, hurt, steal, and play. He cant ... ZACH MOUNCE My father is openly gay. He really loved my mother, but their marriage fell apart. When they separat... BEN CURTIS (Dear kirk hammet, what kind of vegitarian are you? a lactose vegitarian, a ovum vegitarian, or a ve... JAMES HETFIELD He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL He's just a good guy. Easy to get along with, very likable, and he played hard and played the game r... GREG MADDUX A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but hes not a man of action... GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But Im not concerned about ... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to ... MICHAEL BUBLE With his optimism and with the new enthusiasm that a new coach always brings, I think he can take it... LOU HOLTZ He was tall and so am I. He seemed likable. CAROLYN GEORGE He has a lot going for him. He knows the game; that's the first thing. And I think he knows people, ... MIKE DITKA I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with... TANYA TUCKER very articulate but sort of reserved, almost kind of shy. And so I think he is a very likable sort o... CARL TOBIAS We have a lot of respect for the office of the president, and I have a new respect for him because h... CINDY SHEEHAN He was really likable, always smiling, a very outgoing guy. DICK MCCONNELL We went in the studio ... to make music. And I think Neil liked that. When he came down to play on o... GRAHAM NASH Stop running from me and listen. I do want you. I want you even knowing if I marry you, I’ve got a... LISA KLEYPAS He knows I was the guy who just kept coming back and screwing things up, so he had to send me back. ... BOBBY MEACHAM We are taking this very seriously. It is good to have a different perspective on the bag every now a... PAUL MCGINLEY He seemed like a nice guy, a family guy ... real quick-witted, personable and easygoing. ADAM TIMMERMAN It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy. CORY DOCTOROW Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so m... BENNY GREEN I am generally a very happy and easygoing person. HEIDI KLUM I don't follow anything that's said about him much, but the Uwe Boll that I know is just a r... MICHAEL EKLUND I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I Mark brings so much more to a team than just statistics, ... First and foremost, he brings energy, a... KEVIN MCHALE I'm excited for the guy. We knew he was due. He is a very talented athlete, and a very good quarterb... ERIC HEITMANN I want a happy marriage and whatever it takes to achieve that. But I think the main prerequisite wou... SHILPA SHETTY I've done my work and I'm happy with it... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different p... BRANDON LEE It isn't a fit nickname. It is, in a way. He's an easy guy. He goes with the flow. But he's a very p... THOMAS BJORN I've never met a better person. He's a really mellow and humble guy. It would be really easy for him... NATE ROHNERT Apollo 11 was the movie premiere of moon landings, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Neil was a b... LILY KOPPEL I like a family guy. He must be fun, must like to go out, and has to respect his mom... my family is... CHRISTINA MILIAN He's a great player. He brings so much to our team. He knows how to score, pass and get some steals.... MICHAEL TELLER I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I'v... ALAN VEGA Right now he knows he's not the starter and he has a long ways to go. But I see a guy willing to wor... DENNIS NORTHCUTT He was a colorful guy and very sincere guy. I'm saddened because he's gone. AUDREY MOORE I really hope people go back and watch his movies, because he was such a fantastic actor, and he is ... WINONA RYDER He is fresh and well and I am very happy. FRANCOIS DOUMEN Karl Lagerfeld looks very tough because of the glasses, and he has all these rings and the leather g... CARINE ROITFELD He just feasts on us. He's a great kid. I really like watching him play from a coaching perspective ... DARRELL BUTLER Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Or... TONY BENNETT Sometimes, you just find that chemistry with some guys. I think that's what's going on with me and T... HENRIK TALLINDER He's a very good counter-puncher and he passes well, ... He's a good, talented player and I am happy... MARDY FISH This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him ... VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES He was just a good guy. I can't tell you how much he loved the people he worked with. He treated the... CATHI RODERICK He seemed like the guy I really wanted to be around and help out as much as I can. DAVE MARTINEZ It's not easy to accomplish, but he certainly has the means to do so. I have a plan I'd like to disc... JARED PAUL STERN I certainly think he could do the job, ... because he has a lot of experience in football. He knows ... ALAIN PERRIN It is hard to lose a coach like Ryan, because he knows so much and brings a lot to the table. Jay, M... GLEN MILLICAN He really understands the game. And I just really think it's a big blessing that I can have my first... DAVID LEE It was certainly a shock when he told us. He did so much for people, not just for music, and that's ... ANDREW PHILLIPS I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for... RACHEL STEVENS He was very bright and talented. What he did was learn his craft well. As he said, you can't be stup... WILLIAM THOMAS He is definitely a realist and he is a very, very, very intelligent guy. He probably is head and sho... DAVID KIMCHE I am endorsing Sen. Cruz because I have worked with him in the trenches, fought battles with him on ... PAUL GOSAR It was unintentional, Andre headbutted me right in the head, ... He always liked me and he was reall... LANNY POFFO Hugh Jackman really inspired me as a kid. He's a cool Aussie guy who works very hard, and he'... BRENTON THWAITES He was a nice guy, such a good person, easy to get along with and friendly with everyone. JULIO NEGRON I have so much respect for him, and I don't even think he will mind. ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Very talented but very dedicated, accomplished musician. The way he goes about his music business, h... DON ROGERS We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Right after he got sick, he was really passionate about wanting to have a child. When you deal with ... LISA LYE He molded a lot of young kids. He was a tough, fair and likable guy as a coach. CHRIS ANDERSON He's very easygoing and friendly, someone you would like immediately. He knows how to explain to the... LAURENCE KOTLIKOFF I just feel like I am a really lucky guy who these talented directors have found places for me. I fe... MICHAEL STUHLBARG He (Hugo) has certainly generated some publicity. He is who he is. He's likable and charismatic. DEMETRIUS FANNICK He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feelin... AMANDA PEET He plays so hard and plays with guts and passion, and he's the kind of guy you'd like to have on you... BRUCE PEARL It's not easy during or after the campaign and I am sure that he realized that. I certainly am sorry... MAYOR MICHAEL O'REILLY I have so much respect for him and what he brings to the court, his tenacity out there, his numerous... JIM COURIER I've learned that he is a very sincere person and that he has a passion for food and he wants to edu... JACKIE ADAMS He would be a very different person to have on Disney's board. He's not a studio guy, a deal-doer. H... THERESA WISE That's why he earns so much respect around the traps, because he can handle himself not just in a ve... MARTIN BARRAS I am an idiot. I am a complete and utter idiot. I got it wrong completely. The guy knows what he is ... TONY KORNHEISER I don't want Dany to fight, he shouldn't be the guy to do it. But he stood up and did the job. He kn... BRYAN MURRAY He's got a great arm, throws 96 [mph]. He has a split grip that's already pretty much in place. He j... BOB CLUCK When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI Bill Daley brings a wide range of experience with respect to business, finance and government. He ha... JIM MCNERNEY He's a compassionate guy; he's a person of substance; he's passionate about what he wants for this s... BARRY COHEN He's a really knowledgeable guy and he knows the game very well. We've got to know what everybody el... DORIEN BRYANT He (Peel) was a wonderful person. He was a genuinely nice person, which is rare in this business. He... DAVID GEDGE He came to us and got us out of trouble. ... He's a very talented guy. I know, if he wanted to, he c... RICHARD APPELL For me, that was a worry, and I sat down with him and said exactly that, ... But when you talk to so... NICK ATKINSON I'm glad he got the job. He knows most of us -- he's very knowledgeable and easy to work with. KAMERON LOE I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he's a to... FRANKA POTENTE Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar ... HAROLD PRINCE He's really focused. He knows what has to be done. He's focused on the task at hand. He wants to hav... JOE ANOAI He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes. EDWIN EDWARDS He will certainly be in the squad, that's for sure. We'll get him training with the lads, and he is ... BILLY DAVIES
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When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery. NEIL DIAMOND It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there w... NEIL DIAMOND The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotli... NEIL DIAMOND I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I wr... NEIL DIAMOND I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expect... NEIL DIAMOND You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the... NEIL DIAMOND Some are born who never need them, Others still who never read them, signs. NEIL DIAMOND I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got. NEIL DIAMOND 'I am,' I said To no one there, And no one heard at all. NEIL DIAMOND Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives. NEIL DIAMOND Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune. NEIL DIAMOND I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a f... NEIL DIAMOND I'm throwing myself back in because I like being married. I don't want to end this whole fab... NEIL DIAMOND I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It ha... NEIL DIAMOND Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they... NEIL DIAMOND When I need my wife or when I need companionship or someone to talk to, I need it, like, now. So my ... NEIL DIAMOND Some days are diamonds Some days are stones Sometimes the hard times won't leave me alone Sometimes ... NEIL DIAMOND All the sparkly shirts and the stage trappings - that's just the performer, the public me, ... Songw... NEIL DIAMOND I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting ... NEIL DIAMOND Everywhere around the world They're coming to America Everytime that flags unfurled They're coming t... NEIL DIAMOND You are the sun, ... I am the moon. NEIL DIAMOND All of which I agreed to, with the exception of playing on the songs while singing, ... We butted he... NEIL DIAMOND We're happy that you're here and that you remember us, ... Remember Me. NEIL DIAMOND I made a U-turn and went back 40 years to try to recapture those feelings, ... The major difference ... NEIL DIAMOND the hardest part of this whole project. Each song has its own story, its own emotional content, its ... NEIL DIAMOND I was doing what I wanted to do, ... I was making the records I wanted to make where and when I want... NEIL DIAMOND the recordings became bigger than the songs, which I came to understand is a backwards way of doing ... NEIL DIAMOND It's very difficult for me to say 'I love you' but to sing 'I love you' for me is easier. NEIL DIAMOND As he said to all the rich, middle-aged white people, 'We are all God's children.' NEIL DIAMOND Of course I liked what Johnny did with 'Solitary Man,' NEIL DIAMOND That's show business, NEIL DIAMOND Kind of unspoken, we both agreed to continue working and to get to the next stage, ... which was to ... NEIL DIAMOND You have to go out there and give a piece of yourself -- your life, your soul. And you better give t... NEIL DIAMOND I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part. NEIL DIAMOND Be as a page that aches for a word/ Which speaks on a theme that is timeless. NEIL DIAMOND "I am," I said To no one there And no one heard at all Not even the chair "I am," I cried "I am," sa... NEIL DIAMOND Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics. NEIL DIAMOND If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it... NEIL DIAMOND Yauch was a gifted MC. MICHAEL DIAMOND Yauch was great at lacking fear. MICHAEL DIAMOND I believed, up to last week, that Adam was somehow coming back. But I wouldn't trade that optimi... MICHAEL DIAMOND The sport of shooting is my life. MICHAEL DIAMOND Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete. MICHAEL DIAMOND Honestly achieved results surpass all others. MICHAEL DIAMOND Sorry dude, but we're in a boxing match and you went against your word and tried to make me look... DUSTIN DIAMOND An individualist is one who pays his taxes with a smile AL DIAMOND If all efficiency experts were laid end to end- I'd be in favor of it AL DIAMOND In America we believe in Life, Liberty - and the pursuit AL DIAMOND A penny saved is a penny wasted AL DIAMOND Arouse the mind without resting it on anything. DIAMOND SUTRA Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many... JARED DIAMOND You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. 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JARED DIAMOND The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond w... JARED DIAMOND We believe it was critical that these technology and policy resources be designed in tandem. Togethe... CAROL DIAMOND To have a world-class tight-head in your squad is a huge asset, not only for his playing ability but... STEVE DIAMOND The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest... JARED DIAMOND It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in... JARED DIAMOND Next time we need to be on drugs and have lots of suffering and alcohol abuse going on while recordi... JIM DIAMOND I don't know who's worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson. DUSTIN DIAMOND When we went for the pictures, we knew that this was going to be the first and only time that we wer... 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RUSS DIAMOND We're in the middle of vetting potential candidates. RUSS DIAMOND Lawmakers should run, they should run fast and not look back. They should realize that things have c... RUSS DIAMOND I believe this might just be never-ending. RUSS DIAMOND It's been over a month now, and the voter outrage is still going strong. RUSS DIAMOND The will of the people will make 2006 a historic year. RUSS DIAMOND Leadership controlling it all is the biggest problem we have in Harrisburg. That makes (for) very fe... RUSS DIAMOND This is the last chance for those who are truly dedicated to changing government in Pennsylvania. On... RUSS DIAMOND This has caused consternation over our candidates publicly and in the press. People have questioned ... RUSS DIAMOND It takes courage to overthrow your government. RUSS DIAMOND It's easy to run with no opponents. RUSS DIAMOND In Westmoreland and Fayette counties, we'll have a lot of candidates. In a couple of races, we might... 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JARED DIAMOND I read that a false alarm of a tsunami in Hawaii would cost about $68 million. JARED DIAMOND I just want to be with my family and that's it, so it makes sense. MICHAEL DIAMOND When we market this product, the way we approach it (is that) the ignition interlock is the best saf... MICHAEL DIAMOND Asia has more than twice as many severely deprived children as sub-Saharan Africa. This scale of chi... MICHAEL DIAMOND Asia has more than twice as many severely deprived children as sub-Saharan Africa. This scale of chi... MICHAEL DIAMOND Representing Australia as an Olympian at Barcelona in 1992 and Atlanta 1996 were the proudest moment... MICHAEL DIAMOND Intuitively, she sensed Leonardo’s gaze on her, and she caught sight of him near the entrance to t... DELANEY DIAMOND That was out of line.” “No, it wasn’t, querida.” He smiled, the devastating smile she f... DELANEY DIAMOND They didn't actually think it was going to be achievable, because they were so frightened by the vas... WILLIAM DIAMOND Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate respo... JARED DIAMOND I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun. JARED DIAMOND Toen de bewoners van Paaseiland in de problemen kwamen, konden ze nergens heen, was er niemand bij w... JARED DIAMOND Zo is het gegaan met de Indiaanse bevolking van San Nicolas-eiland, voor de kust van Los Angeles, di... JARED DIAMOND ...the Viking expansion is a good example of what is termed an auto-catalytic process. In chemistry ... JARED DIAMOND the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu concluded that Europeans and Christianity posed a threat to the stability... JARED DIAMOND society’s structure created a conflict between the short-term interests of those in power, and the... JARED DIAMOND the values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values tha... JARED DIAMOND The people whose children had to walk barefoot to school killed the people who could buy shoes for t... JARED DIAMOND All these adoptions of European styles make it obvious that the Greenlanders paid very close attenti... JARED DIAMOND As on Easter Island and at Chaco Canyon, Maya peak population numbers were followed swiftly by polit... JARED DIAMOND Almost everywhere else in the world, my archaeologist friends have an uphill struggle to convince go... JARED DIAMOND a society’s fate lies in its own hands and depends substantially on its own choices. JARED DIAMOND Montana would have been better off in the long run if it had never mined copper at all but had just ... JARED DIAMOND Thus, Norse society’s structure created a conflict between the short-term interests of those in po... JARED DIAMOND Así pues, tanto las sociedades como los grupos humanos más pequeños pueden tomar decisiones catas... JARED DIAMOND I have often asked myself, "What did the Easter Islander who cut down the last palm tree say while h... JARED DIAMOND (On the beginning of the mid-1990s' genocidal war in Rwanda:) Within six weeks, an estima... JARED DIAMOND ...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency. JARED DIAMOND For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrast... JARED DIAMOND In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, spro... JARED DIAMOND Globalization makes it impossible for modern societies to collapse in isolation, as did Easter Islan... JARED DIAMOND Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environme... JARED DIAMOND People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the wor... JARED DIAMOND History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those... JARED DIAMOND Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societi... JARED DIAMOND The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into... JARED DIAMOND [W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fana... JARED DIAMOND In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us... BOB DIAMOND They never made them to this scale. We made them much higher, much wider, so that the client and the... WILLIAM DIAMOND I've done a lot of Internet research and read a lot of books about oils. It's my personal thing, HARVEY DIAMOND Differences between the Old and New Worlds in domesticated plants,especially in large-seeded cereals... JARED DIAMOND Most people are explicitly racists. In parts of the world - so called educated, so-called western so... JARED DIAMOND Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. JARED DIAMOND Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of ... JARED DIAMOND If you gave me 10 million dollars, I wouldn't live any differently. Although nowadays I guess you'd ... JARED DIAMOND The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did... JARED DIAMOND Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's ea... JARED DIAMOND Tasmania lies 130 miles southeast of Australia. When it was first visited by Europeans in 1642, Tasm... JARED DIAMOND With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placin... JARED DIAMOND What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didn't ... JARED DIAMOND Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. A... JARED DIAMOND The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by... JARED DIAMOND AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing ... JARED DIAMOND If one of those friendly societies itself runs into environmental problems and collapses for environ... JARED DIAMOND The problem is that only a tiny minority of wild plants and animals lend themselves to domestication... JARED DIAMOND Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-h... JARED DIAMOND The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have ... JARED DIAMOND Technology has to be invented or adopted. JARED DIAMOND Guns, Germs and Steel JARED DIAMOND why, for instance, only 2 per cent of Europeans contract the disease as opposed to 13 per cent of Af... JARED DIAMOND In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. Tha... JARED DIAMOND Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots. JARED DIAMOND To me, the conclusion that the public has the ultimate responsibility for the behavior of even the b... JARED DIAMOND Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, l... JARED DIAMOND The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island, isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got int... JARED DIAMOND The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North Amer... JARED DIAMOND Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter... JARED DIAMOND This is a great way to celebrate the 25th Anniversary and re-live the magic of THE BLUES BROTHERS on... DAN DIAMOND Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, ... JARED DIAMOND It's a clear signal that Pennsylvanians have awoke from their long slumber. RUSS DIAMOND Many cases are won or lost during the jury selection phase of the case. JAMES DIAMOND Humans have been evolving for millions of years longer in Africa than in Europe, and even anatomical... JARED DIAMOND It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, i... JARED DIAMOND Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, ... JARED DIAMOND We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reas... JARED DIAMOND How is it that Pizarro and Cortes reached the New World at all, before Aztec and Inca conquistadors ... JARED DIAMOND Australia is the most isolated continent. JARED DIAMOND They repealed the pay raise but they didn't repeal the indelible mark it left on the taxpayers from ... RUSS DIAMOND Instead of just giving us a tax break and putting the money back into the General Fund, we've got to... RUSS DIAMOND The legislators are confused and scared right now. But that doesn't change a thing for us. RUSS DIAMOND I think that the voters fully understand what's going on here. RUSS DIAMOND They can do it again. It?s time to take back our government. RUSS DIAMOND Tasmanians actually abandoned some technologies that they brought with them from Australia and that ... JARED DIAMOND This is a great way to celebrate the 25th Anniversary and re-live the magic of THE BLUES BROTHERS on... DAN DIAMOND I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed. DUSTIN DIAMOND Life is a series of lessons in which there is never enough learned. DIAMOND RYAN