Mike Posner Quotes
If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice.
Quotes to Explore
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.
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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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I worked with Michael Black and Michael Showalter on their show 'Michael and Michael Have Issues.' We did some stuff on that, but it ended up not getting picked up for a second season. There will be more stuff, but not right now. Michael Showalter and I are literally next-door neighbors. We see quite a lot of each other.
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We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
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Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
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When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.
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Much of our brainpower goes unused, and many people could benefit greatly from optimizing their mental assets.
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People don't want to embrace culture shifts because it's not going to happen in the next 20 minutes.
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I'm used to people talking about me.
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I grew my dreadlocks 12 years ago because they give me the freedom to roll out of bed and not spend hours on my woolly, thick hair. I get tons of dropped jaws and compliments, so I reckon folks like them all right.
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I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'.
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I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.
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This is a group effort. This is group theatre. This is no big star turn. You could do things with it to do that but it would just be out of kilter. This is one reason I like this play. This is a unit.
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There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.
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Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as they found it. On those few occasions when major change does occur, it is rarely good news.
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If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve. He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire, and creates confusion in those who think that they know. Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place.
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No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
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I have always been convinced that the only way to get artificial intelligence to work is to do the computation in a way similar to the human brain. That is the goal I have been pursuing. We are making progress, though we still have lots to learn about how the brain actually works.
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If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice.
