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.
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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.
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The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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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.
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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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.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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I love working with women.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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You don't get nothing and like it.
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I've always been interested in a certain kind of sophistication in children's literature. I loved Roald Dahl; I loved the underlying nastiness of some of his - darkness of his tales.
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And it's always the same kind of artist, I think, who has more enjoyment being slightly on the outside of things, who doesn't want to be sucked into the tyranny of the mainstream. Because once you get sucked into that, you're dead as an artist.
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
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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.
