Adam Mansbach Quotes

For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.

Adam Mansbach

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• People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Struggle
  • Chaos

• Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Political
  • Free
  • Minimum Wage

• Now is the only thing that exists.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Now
  • Only
  • The Only Thing

• There is no sin except stupidity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Sin
  • Stupidity
  • Except

• I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• You can't change the market; the market just is.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • You
  • Change
  • Market

• I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • People
  • Love
  • Suffer

• But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Think
  • Mistakes
  • Miracles

• I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Believe
  • Spirit
  • Compassion

• Every sport has its own cast of characters.

  

  Randy Savage
  • Own
  • Every
  • Cast

• I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Long
  • Wine
  • Trail

• I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Small
  • Travel
  • Summer

• As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Up
  • Go
  • Advertising

• I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Look
  • Grow
  • Portrait

• We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Mind
  • Running

• Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Lonely

• Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Good
  • Single
  • Day

• But now I can see that perfect simply means learning how to forgive and to accept and to do everything you can to love with your whole heart.

  

  Bella Andre
  • Learning
  • Forgive
  • Heart

• I think I managed to trick people a little bit into thinking I'm more arty by making creative, artistic, visual work and applying it to commercial music. Maybe. I don't know.

  

  Sia LSD
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• You still get these waves of doubt that come over you, for example, when you get a bad review or you accept a part and think, 'Oh, God, what have I just accepted? I can't do that.' I don't think that's something that will ever go away in me.

  

  Ben Barnes
  • God
  • Bad
  • Doubt

• In [Philip] Howard's view, our reliance on law, lawyers, and lawsuits has turned Americans into fat, neurotic cowards who 'go through the day looking over their shoulder instead of where they want to go.'

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • Law
  • Views
  • Coward

• Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liquidity to our financial system and improving the efficiency of capital markets. But as their role has grown, so have the risks they pose.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Important
  • Financial
  • Risks

• For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Giving
  • Financial
  • Stress