Mike Posner Quotes
I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
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Some days, I'll tell you that everything in life was meant to be and that there is an order to the universe. Other days, I'm convinced it's all a combination of luck and opportunity.
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.
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I grew up in north Norfolk, which certainly used to have an enormous sense of community. There are more and more second homes there now, so I'm not sure how that has damaged it. But where I live in South London, there is a beautiful community; it's the friendliest place I have ever lived, which comes as a surprise to non-Londoners.
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.
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I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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What seems like comfort and security one day can all be taken away the very next.
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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
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I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
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I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!
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We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.
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When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates.
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I guess that I was always considered a little too weird for the standup clubs and probably too jokey for doing performance art and those places where those are done.
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I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which is at most knee-deep, with my feet bound in cement.
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[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important.
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I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it.
