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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I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.
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The last great unknown, in terms of physiological training, is the optimum length of a piece. Is three minutes enough? Is ten minutes too much? No one knows. Perhaps someday the question will be answered-we'll find out that thirteen minutes is the perfect length for a training piece when preparing for a 2000 meter race. Until then, coaches will continue exploring the whole scale, up and down, from thirty seconds to sixty minutes and more, in hopes of capturing the optimum time.
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You may imitate, but never counterfeit.
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I am a pretty tough guy. I'm an old hockey player.
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I counsel our children to do their critical studying in the early hours of the morning when they're fresh and alert, rather than to fight physical weariness and mental exhaustion at night. I've learned the power of the dictum, "Early to bed, early to rise." When I'm under pressure, you won't find me burning the midnight oil. I'd much rather be in bed early and getting up in the wee hours of the morning.
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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.
