Adam Mansbach Quotes

'The Pushcart War' is presented as a history of a conflict that has not yet taken place; in each edition of the book, the date on which the hostilities commenced is nudged forward.

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• What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Desire
  • Space
  • Innovation

• When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Christian
  • Spirit
  • Reaction

• I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • World
  • Death
  • Interesting

• My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Know

• Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Man
  • Hands
  • Boxing

• Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Different
  • You
  • Unique

• I have my dad's shape. No booty.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Dad
  • Shape
  • Booty

• In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Business
  • Today

• There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Fiction

• Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • People
  • Hero
  • Guitar

• How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • World
  • Band
  • Rock

• I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Believe
  • Home
  • Square

• See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Country
  • Justice
  • See

• I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Treat

• The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Up
  • Work
  • Help

• Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Earth
  • Fate
  • Fly

• I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Work
  • Care

• The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Interesting
  • First
  • Disney

• If you're a woman lying on the beach in the Maldives, you might want to know that a kilometer away, another woman is being flogged. And you might want to find your own way to protest that.

  

  Amal Clooney
  • Beach

• A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Book
  • Readers
  • Opponents

• Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s.

  

  Alfonso Cuaron

• Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without effort and without its being thought about. It is from this, in my opinion, that grace largely derives.

  

  Baldassare Castiglione
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  • Art
  • Opinion

• 'The Pushcart War' is presented as a history of a conflict that has not yet taken place; in each edition of the book, the date on which the hostilities commenced is nudged forward.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Book
  • War
  • History