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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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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Given the right information to help them decide, people will opt for conditions that benefit our creaturely neighbours, even where they have no particular interest in larks or cuckoo wasps - because those conditions benefit us.
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When people asked to buy my work I always said no. I'd had this rather rarefied idea that I didn't want money going through my head while I was making work. But after the car crash I realized that none of my work was owned by anyone. After that, I grew up a bit.
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When you start searching for your name, you might be thrilled with what a lot of people say and it just takes one person. And it can hurt your feelings, but I have been aware of the fan bases and stuff like that and realize how deeply involved they are.
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I'm a big yogi.
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'Snowpiercer' was out of this world. It gave me a chance to do something I'd never done before, to create a whole new world.
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I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.
