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I recall my dad saying about me once that the only time he'd ever heard me say 'never' was when I was asked if I'd had enough.


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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 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 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 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