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 love writing for young people. It's the literature that was most important to me, the stories that shaped me and informed my own journey as a writer.
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It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.
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There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.
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You know you're grown up when summer is just a season.
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I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.
