Mike Posner Quotes
When I recorded 'Cooler Than Me', I had been singing for like, three months at the most. I was just a producer experimenting with my voice on tracks, and now I'm, like, a really good singer in a legit way.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, but I love giving money to Israel.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.
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There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
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I have never seen myself as a promoter. I always evaluate myself as a manager.
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If you take one of the first flights out in the morning, typically the airplane and the crew have arrived the night before. When you're not waiting on an inbound flight, there are fewer delays.
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English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.
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Nobody's as good as you when you do what you do. I need you to own the time that comes with that.
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When I recorded 'Cooler Than Me', I had been singing for like, three months at the most. I was just a producer experimenting with my voice on tracks, and now I'm, like, a really good singer in a legit way.
