Adam Mansbach Quotes
I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.
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I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.
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At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.
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I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.
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I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.
