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.
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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.
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Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
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The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
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People never expected a boy from a small town to have a life like I did.
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I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.
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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.
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I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
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True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
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I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.
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Directing a film requires a different set of skills. It is a difficult job, and I am happy being an actor.
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Rock is much more malleable than ideas.
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Everybody can, you know, go online, read about something, and have an opinion about something.
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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.
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Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs.
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I was being categorized as some kind of twangy songwriter. And that's just not how I see myself.
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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.
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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.
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We have failed to bring justice. We cannot build the future on injustice.
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If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely.
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We are bound together by the most powerful of all ties, our fervent love for freedom and independence, which knows no homeland but the human heart.
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I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.
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...tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That’s why we’ve got to make sure we pass it on.
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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.
