Adam Neumann Quotes
I try to surround myself with people smarter than me - if I'm the smartest guy in the room, I change rooms.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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There were so many groups that I had in college, but I was always the solo singer. But what made it so unusual back in the day was that I was a black girl playing with all these white musicians, and I was also singing rock music on top of it.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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Men and women have strengths that complement each other.
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The task is not to search for meaning, but to bring meaning to every situation you are in.
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I might like somebody, and have to go interview somebody that hates them, but I still have to be fair.
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I don't know how much more what I've done is any more important than what Ella Fitzgerald did. Ella crossed those lines, as did George Benson before me. There've been lots of people who brought a pop audience to jazz because they were able to link the two and give people easy access to the world of jazz.
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I try to surround myself with people smarter than me - if I'm the smartest guy in the room, I change rooms.
