Adam Neumann Quotes
During Shabbat, I am completely cut off, there is no one to talk to, and I do not compromise about it.
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I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.
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The discourse of the West and the attitudes of its leaders are important because they influence public debate in Turkey.
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I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
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If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.
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I have no trouble sleeping.
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Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may lead you to others. Collaborate with geniuses. Send them your spells. Look carefully at theirs. What could you do together? Combination is creation.
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When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you're not in every scene, and then all of a sudden you're in every scene, it's rough.
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Religious traditions are easy to lose sight of in today's marketing frenzy. Make sure you take time to gently usher your little ones into the rituals that have special meaning for you.
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I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town.
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I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.
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Each person's body type is different, and they need to understand that food should be eaten in regular portions.
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Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full head of hair. Or not even come back! Make a new life there with hair... Change my name, just see what happens.
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You want to be excited about what you're doing. So whenever I get tired, I think, 'Would ten-year-old Adam be pretty stoked on what I'm doing and what's happening?' So I just live my life as if I'm using my ten-year-old brain.
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Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!
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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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'Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie – I never did anything bad – because there were so many bad guys in that movie. I said, 'The hell with this, I'm just gonna be a lovable guy.' I'm like Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape.'
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The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.
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'Try to avoid painting in places where they still point at aeroplanes.'
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The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no improvement at all of the understanding, but only a perversity of it, not to mention that it serves most of them as a tool of vanity.
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The Singaporean speculative tradition is different. Singapore doesn't conceive itself as the centre of the world or the one country that's going to save the world, so there's a different tone that comes out in the way speculative fiction is done. That's refreshing to read.
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We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason.
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I don't deal with the nuts and bolts of life.
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I encourage all my key people to bring their mobiles when they travel.
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During Shabbat, I am completely cut off, there is no one to talk to, and I do not compromise about it.
