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?

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Enough
  • Said
  • Say

• I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.

  

  Flume
  • Like
  • Stuff
  • Really

• I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Good
  • Never
  • Rugby

• Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • You
  • Know

• I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.

  

  Halsey
  • Good
  • Very
  • Singer

• 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.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Different
  • Character
  • Movie

• 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.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• 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.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Character

• 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?'

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Good
  • Book
  • Success

• 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.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Children
  • Society

• The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Future
  • Band
  • Favorite

• I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Up
  • Old
  • Valuable

• 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.

  

  Larenz Tate
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• Values are more important than money.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Important
  • Money
  • Values

• I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Guilty

• Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Small
  • Drama
  • Cricket

• 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.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Life
  • Work
  • Freedom

• There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.

  

  Wale
  • America
  • You
  • Win

• I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to do everything that you're not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I'm going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I'm not going to worry about how things connect until later on.'

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Worry
  • Thought
  • Step

• I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

  

  Boyd Holbrook

• One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.

  

  Danny Kaye
  • Life
  • Done

• We do not see a purpose in giving news updates if there is no news. I find it kind of pathetic and moronic when bands constantly give updates about useless crap in their camp that likely no one cares about. It is cheesy, stupid, and I have no respect for it. We have always preferred staying in the shadows and doing things at our own quiet pace.

  

  John Haughm Agalloch
  • Band
  • Shadows
  • Staying

• When I came to the U.S., I tried to take shortcuts to make money - but everything crashed.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • Money