Adam Mansbach Quotes
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In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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I cannot believe how much love people have shown me.
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People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.
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Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.
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When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.
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Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.
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I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.
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I hope to bring people to God with my songs.
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I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
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These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.
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I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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Wherever I go, people are so kind and so lovely and so warm and show their best self. So I feel very lucky.
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I've always ignored the labels people put on things.
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I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.
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I like the gizmos that transport people.
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If a straight horizontal thread one meter long falls from a height of one meter on to a horizontal plane twisting as it pleases it creates a new image of the unit of length.
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What I have seen in my travels across this country is the dedication, the commitment, and the resolve of our brave men and women in law enforcement to improving policing, to embracing the 21st Century Task Force recommendations, and to continuing to have a dialogue that makes our country safer for all.
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You playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won't feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.
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I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.
