Mike Posner Quotes

I just sing over hip-hop beats, you know. That's what I've been doing. That's what I started in '09 in my dorm room.

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• The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Play

• I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • College
  • Football
  • Sports

• Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • People
  • Good
  • Best

• The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • War
  • Civil War
  • Unite

• People never expected a boy from a small town to have a life like I did.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • Life
  • Small

• I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Stories
  • Old
  • Functioning

• I had an instinct to gravitate towards people who were smarter than I was, teachers that were nice people that were trying to do things in life that were constructive, and that's what I gravitated to instead of what I saw and what I was in.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

  

  Oliver North
  • Good
  • Lawyer
  • Legal

• True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • True
  • Want
  • Lonely

• I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Serious

• Directing a film requires a different set of skills. It is a difficult job, and I am happy being an actor.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Job
  • Film
  • Actor

• Rock is much more malleable than ideas.

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Rock

• Everybody can, you know, go online, read about something, and have an opinion about something.

  

  David Harewood
  • Opinion

• We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

  

  Gaylord Nelson
  • Life
  • World
  • Serious

• Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs.

  

  Alex Berenson

• I was being categorized as some kind of twangy songwriter. And that's just not how I see myself.

  

  Kathleen Edwards

• I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of follow your own passions, and I believe quite passionately that we don't pay enough attention and respect to our veterans. Not just our wounded veterans, but all veterans.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Believe
  • Pretty
  • Respect

• The album 'Kelis Was Here' sucked the life out of me, and so I went off and studied to be a Cordon Bleu chef. What's great about food is that it's less about who you know and what you look like, and more about if you're any good.

  

  Kelis Rogers
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they grow older and probably wiser, I can look back at my earlier life - my history, my mistakes, the joy I felt as a young woman traveling the world - with some objectivity and even some humor.

  

  Amanda Lindhout
  • Life
  • World
  • History

• We're barely meeting the core in rural Utah.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Meeting
  • Core
  • Utah

• The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Government

• Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Civil War
  • Warfare
  • Foreign

• I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom.

  

  Mariska Hargitay
  • Fun
  • Mom
  • Air

• I just sing over hip-hop beats, you know. That's what I've been doing. That's what I started in '09 in my dorm room.

  

  Mike Posner