Adam Neumann Quotes
When I came to the U.S., I tried to take shortcuts to make money - but everything crashed.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.
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Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.
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Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
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Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.
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My philosophy, in a nutshell, is to wipe out the greatest amount of risk with the least amount of money.
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I love how New York as an idea is less a paradigm of manifest destiny and more a romance for the social orphans of the world. We live here to be among the towers and the crowds.
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When I came to the U.S., I tried to take shortcuts to make money - but everything crashed.
