Mike Posner Quotes

From what I understand about Shakespeare - which isn't a lot - there was no copyright law when he was writing. He sampled at will, and it wasn't seen as a bad thing.

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• So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Harmony

• I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Time
  • Important
  • Love

• I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.

  

  AJ McLean
  • World
  • Heart
  • Think

• I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Children
  • Think
  • Maturity

• Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Home
  • Day
  • Wife

• You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • You
  • Monster
  • Buildings

• There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Very
  • Budget
  • Documentary

• The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Up
  • Music
  • Pressure

• I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Create
  • Break

• I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Live
  • Decision
  • Religious

• The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Environment
  • Year

• I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Fact

• I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • School
  • Remember
  • Violence

• 'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Story
  • Two
  • Sides

• It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in Central Park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they say in books. I too once met a girl in Central Park, but it is not much to remember. What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in Stagecoach, and the time the kitten found Orson Welles in the doorway in The Third Man.

  

  Walker Evans
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Good
  • Writing

• Everybody has their thing that they're truthful about. My thing is just a love of God... so that's what I'm going to do.

  

  Letitia Wright
  • God

• The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.

  

  E. M. Delafield
  • People
  • Children
  • Book

• I feel positive when I feel vulnerable, because it's another reminder that it's not all about me and about my ego.

  

  Brad Willis
  • Ego
  • I Feel
  • Reminder

• From what I understand about Shakespeare - which isn't a lot - there was no copyright law when he was writing. He sampled at will, and it wasn't seen as a bad thing.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Law