Adam Mansbach Quotes
I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you're surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren't distracted by people's conversations.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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People have to be sensitive to - I hate using the word 'celebrities' - people in the spotlight. Because there's so much more than what you see on the cover of a magazine.
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I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.
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My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
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I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission.
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I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you're surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren't distracted by people's conversations.
