Adam Mansbach Quotes
A good cookout ought to last at least six hours; if you haven't eaten and gotten full and gotten hungry and eaten again, you're doing something wrong.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
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I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.
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The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.
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If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.
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If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much.
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I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.
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Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole.
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That's how you win these battles over long periods of time. You continue to fight. You continue to bring it up. You continue to message it to your constituents and to America in general.
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Carl is not even in the same time zone with those people. He is somewhere else, on the road interviewing candidates.
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A good cookout ought to last at least six hours; if you haven't eaten and gotten full and gotten hungry and eaten again, you're doing something wrong.
