Mike Posner Quotes

I want to headline Bonnaroo. I just want to do it more than anything in the world.

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• I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • City
  • Race
  • Meetings

• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Tell
  • Whatever

• My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Culture
  • Pop
  • Pop Culture

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Life
  • Work
  • Independence

• Focus on remedies, not faults.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Focus
  • Faults
  • Remedies

• It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Great
  • Live
  • Support

• Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Ignorance
  • Case
  • Bliss

• The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Creative

• We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Friends
  • Young
  • Face

• I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Knew
  • Having
  • Normalcy

• Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Children
  • Words
  • Poetry

• Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Man
  • Justice
  • Violence

• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Music
  • God
  • Art

• Our focused customers are small business and young people. We did a great job in China. How can we help those young people in India, in Pakistan, in Africa. If they can use in the same ways.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Great
  • Business

• To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Mind
  • Why

• Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Attention
  • Present
  • Immigration

• My mum was quite poor, and my dad was rich. She didn't dig that, so she left him.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • She
  • Dad

• The violence of beast on beast is read As natural law, but upright man Seeks his divinity by inflicting pain.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Law
  • Pain
  • Violence

• I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I love it when women are like, 'You guys sound like me and my best friend!'

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Women
  • Friend

• I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Why
  • Die

• I want to headline Bonnaroo. I just want to do it more than anything in the world.

  

  Mike Posner
  • World