Adam Neumann Quotes
There's no one person that can provide all the insights I need to run the business. There are so many aspects to WeWork: Digital, real estate, operations, space, and design. I pick and choose people who can help in each aspect.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.
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When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
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At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.
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One of the Robinson brothers from the Black Crowes turned me on to Nick Drake.
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People say I'm the original Don Draper. I'm not Don Draper.
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The Beatles had gone beyond comprehension. We were smoking marijuana for breakfast. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with us, because we were just glazed eyes, giggling all the time.
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The biggest mistake I made was not having a full-time producer. I was securing locations and wardrobe and making sure people get called to show up on time and getting the film to the lab and getting the camera, and all this stuff that I'm happy to do, but if I'm doing every little thing, I'm not concentrating on my story. So it never gets any better than the script.
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There's no one person that can provide all the insights I need to run the business. There are so many aspects to WeWork: Digital, real estate, operations, space, and design. I pick and choose people who can help in each aspect.
