Mike Posner Quotes

I remember I wanted to be an athlete. I wanted to be in the NFL or NBA or something, and I don't think I dreamed of being a benchwarmer. I'm sure I wanted to be the best. But I didn't really ever think I was going to be a famous musician.

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• If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Road
  • Internet
  • Name

• Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Space
  • Need
  • Save

• Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • History
  • Rock
  • Mistake

• I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Face
  • Changing

• Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Life
  • American
  • Fear

• We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Girl
  • Sexy
  • Train

• We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Public
  • Transportation

• On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.

  

  Iman
  • Home
  • Friends
  • Night

• Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Music
  • Different
  • Think

• I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • God
  • Grace

• 'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Fun

• Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Art
  • House
  • Hand

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Value

• If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Good
  • Work
  • Television

• I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Country
  • America
  • Think

• The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • World
  • Writing
  • Art

• There is a physical neurobiological substrate to all human knowledge, including thoughts, memories, perceptions and emotions. To this end, mental states and thought processes are physical.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Knowledge
  • Thoughts
  • Memories

• 'This isn’t the first. People have been making malware that does this for a few years now. There’s a word for it: ‘ransomware.’'

  

  Neal Stephenson
  • People

• Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

  

  Chris Alexander
  • Move
  • Horizon
  • Nomadic

• Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Up
  • Death
  • City

• I'm interested in all kinds of art. I draw and paint and don't know how to play the banjo, but I do play the banjo.

  

  Ellar Coltrane
  • Art

• I remember I wanted to be an athlete. I wanted to be in the NFL or NBA or something, and I don't think I dreamed of being a benchwarmer. I'm sure I wanted to be the best. But I didn't really ever think I was going to be a famous musician.

  

  Mike Posner
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