Adam Neumann Quotes
As the world becomes a more digital place, we cannot forget about the human connection.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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When people say 'Lysistrata' has always been seen as an anti-war play, what's interesting is to not make it an anti-war play, because I actually think there are important times to go to war in this world. That's just the reality. But what's interesting is the not caring.
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As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to join the army like my grandfather to taking up merchant navy as a career to running for India, and finally, investment banking while I was a student of economics honour. But during my college days, I began to get offers for modelling.
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I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted on the young," we should add that "Age can be wasted on the aged," unless one's capacity to wonder increases.
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When I do a film score, I am basically nothing more than a fancy pencil for hire. I don't own any of the music when I am - it belongs to the film company - and likewise, when I am done, even if I come up with something astounding that I may want to revisit... in the world of film composition, you can't do that.
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I think you realise how terrifying and scary the world is when you're bringing kids into it.
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As the world becomes a more digital place, we cannot forget about the human connection.
