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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If consumers were more empowered, they would take more responsibility for their health.
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Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'
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Charlottesville is a quiet town with friendly people, good schools, lots of churches, parks, and a bustling, growing community that more or less revolves around one of the country's great public universities. Volunteerism is rampant, and dozens of nonprofits hustle about, solving problems and helping those in need.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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Being a nice girl from the Mid-West, my inclination is always to give in and say yes because I want people to like me.
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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.
