Adam Mansbach Quotes

Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.

Adam Mansbach

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• It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.

  

  Campbell Newman
  • Want
  • Example
  • Tax

• Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Health
  • Serious
  • Gun

• When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Enjoy
  • Situation
  • Kid

• It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

  

  O. Henry
  • New
  • New York
  • Old

• Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Reality

• Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Way
  • Superior

• I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Aging

• I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Free
  • Model

• It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Know
  • Nice
  • Beginning

• There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Book
  • Reality

• I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Pretty
  • Guitar
  • Gut

• You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • You
  • Friend
  • Gay

• Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Feel
  • Miss

• The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Important
  • Small
  • Wage

• I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • Real
  • Fun
  • Gangster

• It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • People
  • Age
  • Parents

• I like to travel by myself.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Travel

• Whenever I cook, I think of Spanish music, so I always have to listen to some sort of salsa. It gets your body going.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Music
  • Think
  • Body

• This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Famous
  • Segregation

• After 'Entourage,' it completely opened up my casting within the industry. People saw me for a lot of roles that I hadn't been seen for before. Older roles. I went out this pilot season for a lot of lawyers and doctors. And cops - which I haven't quite mastered yet; I find that quite difficult.

  

  Autumn Reeser
  • People
  • Up

• The people of Hispaniola had their lives unjustly and savagely taken by professed Jesus followers, and they were not, as we all know, the only ones to meet such a fate. Millions of their Indigenous sisters and brothers on Turtle Island were killed at the hands of other Europeans, as nation after imperial nation, bearing Christ on their lips and crosses on their military standards, followed suit.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • People
  • Hispaniola
  • Jesus followers

• Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves.

  

  Jefferson Davis
  • Together
  • Slavery
  • Unknown

• My career is the sum of the decisions I have made. Everyone can work hard, but I work on my own terms. I stand my ground, and once I have committed to anything, I give my 150 per cent. I don't take my work for granted, ever. I know that, forget me, no matter where anyone is, everyone is dispensable. Why would I think I am indispensable then?

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • Work
  • Why
  • Career

• Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Weird