Adam Mansbach Quotes
The city fought a $300 million, 18-year war on graffiti. New York Mayor John Lindsay declared war in 1972, and the battle for the transit system came later.
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I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.
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I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.
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My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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Mamata Banerjee is just a casual worker, just like a commoner.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
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Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we're more of a pitching-defensive type club. Anaheim and Oakland - and even Texas - are more offensive oriented. We're a club that doesn't blow anybody out, but at the same time we don't get blown out much. We're in most of the games.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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I need both to feel good: the energy of the city and the quietness of the country.
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No war, or battle's soundWas heard the world around.The idle spear and shield were high up hung.
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
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So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.
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If you were to ask me when I was 17 if I was mad because I didn't have a deal, I would have probably said, 'Yeah.' Now I'm so glad I got it when I got it. People tell you to be patient and wait. Patience is not a virtue of mine, but I think everything definitely happened the right way for me.
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The city fought a $300 million, 18-year war on graffiti. New York Mayor John Lindsay declared war in 1972, and the battle for the transit system came later.
