Mike Posner Quotes

When I started picking out music for myself, I was a hip-hop kid. DMX, The Roots, Outkast, people like that.

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• I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Struggle
  • Chaos

• In America, music is more tightly categorized.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Music
  • America
  • More

• I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.

  

  Wale
  • Me
  • Learning
  • Famous

• The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Work
  • Writer
  • Impact

• 'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Giving
  • Community

• Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Everything
  • Build
  • Cinema

• There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Time
  • Beauty
  • Role

• Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!

  

  Candice Olson
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Girl

• It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Good
  • Power
  • Game

• To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • See
  • Need
  • Company

• Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Home
  • Strong
  • Better

• It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Support

• A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Balance
  • Difficult

• Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Up
  • Business
  • Ideas

• I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Like

• I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Character
  • True
  • Religion

• The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Success
  • Start
  • Scared

• The way to advance the nation's prosperity and achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization, and substituting machines and power for human backs.

  

  Charles Erwin Wilson
  • Power
  • Science
  • Technology

• I love to sing, and I love to talk to people at meet-and-greets.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • People

• It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.

  

  T. H. White
  • Seems
  • Starving
  • Armament

• When someone comes forward and is an individual, such as a Lady Gaga or a Katy Perry, people respond to them because there is that sense of innocence. It's obviously dress up and theatre.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • People
  • Up
  • Theatre

• I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.

  

  Chaz Bono
  • People
  • Why
  • Risk

• When I started picking out music for myself, I was a hip-hop kid. DMX, The Roots, Outkast, people like that.

  

  Mike Posner
  • People
  • Music