Mike Posner Quotes
What I'm trying to do is maintain some mindfulness about being popular - I wasn't so great at that last time around.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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I am a very selfish person.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'd go to town on Saturday afternoons, sit on the street corner, and I'd sing and play.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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I love it when a guy compliments my vibe.
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
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My parents aren't crazy conservative. They're actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I'm from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.
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A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.
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I have made lots of mistakes on and off the pitch, and you can only learn from them. If I can get that across, then hopefully I am doing something right.
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What I'm trying to do is maintain some mindfulness about being popular - I wasn't so great at that last time around.
