Adam Mansbach Quotes
For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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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.
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You can't change the market; the market just is.
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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.
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But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.
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I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.
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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.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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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.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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My family is the thing I miss most on the tour.
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The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.
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In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past.
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To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.
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For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.
