Adam Mansbach Quotes

Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.

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• As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Like
  • Something
  • Project

• I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Father
  • Think

• The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Energy
  • Need
  • Nation

• The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Alone
  • Media
  • Social Media

• War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Real
  • War
  • Political

• I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Good
  • Young
  • Guitar

• The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Political
  • Leadership
  • Busy

• When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Women
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Kids
  • Career
  • Wife

• Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we don't change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • World
  • Political
  • Change

• I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • New York
  • Keep Going

• I love working with women.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Women
  • Love
  • Working

• In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Being
  • Iran
  • West

• 'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Up
  • Success
  • Film

• A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Home
  • Story
  • Comfort

• I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Hate
  • Place
  • Grave

• If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Lose
  • Terms

• Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Perfection
  • Got
  • Bitcoin

• The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it at this point; it's kind of the norm. Sometimes I'll bounce around Twitter. And if I have time, I'll catch up on the news, usually on 'Huffington Post' or 'Salon.'

  

  Randall Park
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kind

• America's got a Darwin problem - and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, fewer than 40% of Americans are willing to say that they 'believe in evolution.'

  

  Kenneth R. Miller
  • Believe
  • America
  • Taken

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Passion
  • Reason

• All of nature is in me, and a bit of myself is in all of nature.

  

  Archie Fire Lame Deer
  • Nature
  • Bit

• Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Nature
  • Space
  • Proud