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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Whenever I write, I try and approach my stories from some kind of universal theme or idea or emotion.
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I used to be very interested in the history of women's rights in this country and in other countries. I tried to learn as much as I could about it, and more than anything, I would be called gay. It was phenomenal. But if a boy has something to say, he is appreciated; he's even popular. If a girl says something, it's instantly a threat.
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Holidays - any holiday - are such a great opportunity to focus on bringing the family together.
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This game is crazy. You're up and down, up and down. When you feel good, you want to be there every time for the team.
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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.
