Adam Mansbach Quotes
To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.

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Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the presidency in his own right and to pass his Great Society legislation through Congress.
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I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
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I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
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I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
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I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
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Primary education was in the first place to teach people to be good people. Only secondary education teaches people to also be useful people.
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I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.
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Me, I still believe in paradise. But now at least I know its not some place you can look for because its not where you go. It’s how you feel for a moment in your life when you’re a part of something and if you find that moment, it lasts forever.
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Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Samskrit learning.
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So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.
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To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.