Adam Neumann Quotes
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.
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I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.
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The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the book of Esther. I'll happily join that list.
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You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
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Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.
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'The X Factor' was the final push I needed to have the presence and confidence on stage, which I didn't have before. It's a crash course in the music industry. If you can survive the show, you're ready for the industry.
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I guess I'm just a frustrated cowboy.
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As for pineapple, it's far more versatile than you might think, and certainly merits wider use than in Hawaiian pizzas and pina coladas and on cheesy cocktail sticks.
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When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.
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Instead of deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to misrepresent the people in Parliament, universal suffrage was to serve the people, constituted in Communes, as individual suffrage serves every other employer in the search for the workmen and managers in his business.
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People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.
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When I'm doing the brute work, I do it early in the morning; that's the best time for me to get the stuff down on the page.
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My music already has this oldish kind of quality to it, like you don't necessarily know what era it was recorded in, so it all kind of felt surreal and weird. Night after night when I played live, I was really trying to figure it out in real time, and I still don't know what effect I'm going for or what effect I actually achieve. Looking back, I feel like it would be arrogant of me not to appreciate the fact that I've been able to do whatever I want and still have an audience come see me.
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success in L.A. is completely arbitrary. One day you're the brilliant genius of life, the next day people act like there's a bad smell when you approach. Lots of expensive, late-model cars are offered in the L.A. Times every day by people who have suddenly begun to smell bad. The stakes are just too high for human dignity.
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Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.
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A capitalistic kibbutz is not a bad idea. You need both.
