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Next time we need to be on drugs and have lots of suffering and alcohol abuse going on while recording, I'm kinda picturing a Jerry Lee Lewis session from the mid Seventies.


Jim Diamond

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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JARED DIAMOND They repealed the pay raise but they didn't repeal the indelible mark it left on the taxpayers from ...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 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 "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 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 Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.
NEIL 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