Adam Neumann Quotes
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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I am a Zionist.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.
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I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.
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A life of very, very serious, po-faced films would drive me nuts. I need - and I'm fortunate to have - a fairly varied menu in that respect. I mean, I was shooting 'Mamma Mia!' at the same time as I was doing Michael Winterbottom's 'Genova'. That was a very, very bizarre summer.
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I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.
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I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.
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'Gimme a Break' ran for six years and gave me the kind of money and freedom that I'd dreamed would make me happy. It didn't.
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When I met my wife, I was focused on making money but failing miserably.
