Mike Posner Quotes
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I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
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I do believe that banks are special - they are very leveraged institutions by nature; therefore, it's even more critical to ensure that the governance and the process of running a banking company are well-organised, managed and regulated.
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They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'
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There are people that bring artists to me to look at it, and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.
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Depression has existed as long as mankind itself, and certainly well before psychiatry, antidepressant medication, or the nation of America itself came into being.
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All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.
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I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
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I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
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Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
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Sometimes you're famous before you're good.
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My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.
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Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum.
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To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.
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My 20s were peaceful, privileged, but still I felt the desire to write angsty dramas.
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Though we may prefer ourselves to the universe, we nonetheless loathe ourselves much more than we suspect. If the wise man is so rare a phenomenon, it is because he seems unshaken by the aversion which, like all beings, he must feel for himself.
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I'm kind of like a rapper trapped in a singer's body.
