Mike Posner Quotes
A lot of people have trouble putting into words what my music is, and it's because of where I grew up.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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You have to decide who you are going to serve - stockholders or your customers.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
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On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
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I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
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I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
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Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
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There are people who I still knock around with from the Primrose Hill set, but they have found sobriety, too, and are doing their own things.
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Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of interacting is much more fascinating to me than spending a lot of time worrying about my own. I've said, 'What other people think of me is none of my business.'
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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A lot of people have trouble putting into words what my music is, and it's because of where I grew up.
