Adam Mansbach
Related TED TURNER ARTHUR MILLER It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN To stand on theASK AND IT IS GIVEN MICHAEL KEATON Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.ALBERTO CAEIRO C. JOYBELL C. It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive... DAN FLAVIN STEVEN STRAIT ANTHONY T. HINCKS Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenti... GORDON NEUFELD I think it's a parenting issue. I think kids are realizing they can participate with asthma, whereas... LIZ NASH Conscious parenting is not about being perfect, it's about being aware. Aware of what your kids need... ALEX URBINA I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... HARRY STYLES The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.ALBERTO CAEIRO BEBE REXHA JODI PICOULT DEYTH BANGER CRAIG GROESCHEL I saw that there is no Nature,ALBERTO CAEIRO SUFJAN STEVENS I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read. ALBERTO CAEIRO 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Even so, I’m somebody.ALBERTO CAEIRO JODIE FOSTER GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It was a lot of constant eating in college, ... I'm growing into my body more, so it's not as bad. I... KRISTIN HAYNIE I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa... ERIK GRIFFIN As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It's like an onslaugh... ESSIE DAVIS The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is... DREW BREES CRISTIANO RONALDO Responsible parenting is NOT a crime. Responsible parenting is most valuable tool of our society. MICK KARABEGOVIC DEYTH BANGER NED VIZZINI A mother can read all the child-rearing books and can subscribe to any theory of parenting, but what... LAURENCE SHAMES DAVE GROHL Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of c... ESSIE DAVIS Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st... NEHA KOTHARI I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected p... ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS BARBARA JORDAN BEN SHAPIRO Allowing children to fight their own battles is one of the hardest parenting skills to learn. , JOINT CUSTODY WITH A JERK: RAISING A CHILD WITH AN UNCOOPERATIVE EX, 2011 JAMIE LEE CURTIS CARL HONORE ALLEN GINSBERG CHARLES BUKOWSKI MARTIN JACQUES I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER CHRISTINA ENGELA SUGAR RAY LEONARD If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,ALBERTO CAEIRO Between what i see in a field and what I see in another fieldALBERTO CAEIRO It’s an already inside outside,ALBERTO CAEIRO Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence me... ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As... KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN RENEE JAMES SAM HARRIS STEPHEN COLBERT ISRAELMORE AYIVOR It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc... CHRISTIAN BOBIN We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA DEBASISH MRIDHA Vijaya prefers to eat alone. Rob ushered her into the room and held a chair for her, then sat across... PATRICIA FRANCES ROWELL C. JOYBELL C. ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It's a tale that I believe ultimately speaks of good parenting and what it means to honor one's pare... BRENDAN FRASER The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY GLOZELL CRAIG GROESCHEL 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON What comes, when it comes, will be what it is. ALBERTO CAEIRO Night doesn’t fall for my eyesALBERTO CAEIRO I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.ALBERTO CAEIRO ROBERT REDFORD CALVIN JOHNSON JEFFREY FRY BEN CARSON CASSANDRA CLARE Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO This is the Modern Man, who cannot save himself but wants to save the world.CRISTIANE SERRUYA GINA GREENLEE The most important thing anyone can do is raise their kids well. CLAIRE CROSS I walked a block on rubbery knees, feeling the way I did the time a van clipped my bike and sent me ... MELISSA ALBERT Why things are not easy?
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'Cause life is not. MAYANK KUMAR LOUTERIYA Let your actions speak LOVE. No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO STANLEY DONEN He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,... LAURIE FRANKEL I was born subject like others to errors and defects,ALBERTO CAEIRO Accept the universeALBERTO CAEIRO I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worr... RYAN SHECKLER PAWAN MISHRA UMA THURMAN Checking in on what our kids are doing online isn't 'helicoptering,' it's 'parenting. GALIT BREEN Checking in on what our kids are doing online isn't helicoptering, it's parenting. GALIT BREEN Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM TERESA COLLINS
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Of course, the opposite of white privilege is not blackness, as many of us seemed to think then; the... ADAM MANSBACH While I'm working, I stick with music that won't distract me - the dub stylings of Scientist... ADAM MANSBACH I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the ... ADAM MANSBACH As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard. ADAM MANSBACH You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how... ADAM MANSBACH I think there's a lot of anxiety about being seen as a bad parent. There's still a lot of su... ADAM MANSBACH The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You appro... ADAM MANSBACH Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the cultu... ADAM MANSBACH America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron. 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Which meant ... ADAM MANSBACH A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's awa... ADAM MANSBACH For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It'... ADAM MANSBACH The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history... ADAM MANSBACH Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two... ADAM MANSBACH When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comforta... ADAM MANSBACH My daughter is a very adventurous eater. I'm not the guy who sits around lamenting that all my k... ADAM MANSBACH How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, fam... ADAM MANSBACH I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island. 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ADAM MANSBACH My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which g... ADAM MANSBACH Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal... ADAM MANSBACH When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being... ADAM MANSBACH I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight. ADAM MANSBACH 'The Pushcart War' is presented as a history of a conflict that has not yet taken place; in ... ADAM MANSBACH A good cookout ought to last at least six hours; if you haven't eaten and gotten full and gotten... ADAM MANSBACH I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked m... ADAM MANSBACH Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad ... ADAM MANSBACH When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside w... 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ADAM MANSBACH I've planned book tours for myself, whether or not anybody wants to hear what I have to say. I&#... ADAM MANSBACH Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can ... ADAM MANSBACH To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register. ADAM MANSBACH Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropri... ADAM MANSBACH My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in inter... ADAM MANSBACH I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new word... ADAM MANSBACH I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way,... ADAM MANSBACH To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat... ADAM MANSBACH For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is ... ADAM MANSBACH If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably t... ADAM MANSBACH If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feed... ADAM MANSBACH For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whini... ADAM MANSBACH Sometimes, it's best to let the kids take control - and it's never too early to instill posi... ADAM MANSBACH We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got... ADAM MANSBACH Love is somthing that can not be explained - the force that drives us to protect the ones we care ... ADAM Good people eat all their veggies and all the fruits, but they still have good grades. I call this, ... ADAM ADAM DURITZ Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating tur... ADAM DAVIDSON ADAM DRIVER ADAM WEST There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance. ADAM PEATY ADAM WEST You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It&... ADAM GREEN I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedbac... ADAM OATES ADAM GRANT So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't... ADAM LEVINE Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true... ADAM LEVINE ADAM MCKAY I don't want to be an actor, but why not take these opportunities when they come to you? I'm... ADAM LEVINE The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was most... ADAM MICHNIK I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself th... ADAM LAMBERT I was kind of the black sheep with the Disney kids. I was uninterested in making friends with most o... ADAM LAMBERG ADAM SANDLER ADAM SANDLER ADAM WEST ADAM MCKAY It is unlikely that we will hit a home run anytime soon but if we are unable to get rid of offensive... ADAM DODEK That's the most amazing thing about writing, whether it's in prose or comics: that you can c... ADAM CHRISTOPHER Historically, diversity has been a real issue for superhero comics - so we need to do something abou... ADAM CHRISTOPHER To be honest, writing comics is a dream come true - the form is unparalleled and is home to some of ... ADAM CHRISTOPHER Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to sp... ADAM CHRISTOPHER 'The Burning Dark' needs a certain kind of soundtrack - something dark and moody, electronic... ADAM CHRISTOPHER My own writing has perhaps more of an American flavor than a British one, but that's because the... ADAM CHRISTOPHER The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent ... ADAM CHRISTOPHER I'm an internet junkie. There, I said it. That's the first step, right? I also have a thing ... ADAM CHRISTOPHER ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bi... ADAM BROWN As a first movie, 'The Hobbit' is not a bad place to start. ADAM BROWN It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches. ADAM BROWN You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It&#... 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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. 
It is a lie. 
Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... 
See the world for what it is.
I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... 
You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... 
Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can n... 
Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it. 
More important, it's because God is our only true source of life. 
You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... 
Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships 
She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... 
To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t... 
When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... 
you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can... 
When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani... 
Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it 
Kids are fat because of lack of parenting. 
The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing ... 
Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and e... 
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for peopl... 
I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... 
In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one ... 
Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in t... 
For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... 
Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. I... 
Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be... 
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... 
That's my parenting style - 'Go watch the TV.' I'm one of 11 children, and my mother... 
Cease to think of an impossibility and you will seize an opportunity for productivity. Excellence co... 
For an optimist, life is full of opportunity. For a pessimist, life is full of adversity. Life is wh... 
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... 
Life depends on you and your choices. The real value of your life largely depends on what you do wit... 
Parenting is not giving your child everything they want. Parenting is not being your child's fri... 
You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... 
I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by ac... 
It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made... 
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. 
There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe. 
There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him. 
Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly. 
There's no more film. Film is gone. We photograph digitally and electronically. We don't rea... 
Like a deep sad note
So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of... 
Be grateful for every moment and every breath. 
Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear... 
I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room o... 
When I was getting started, I was so busy just fighting my way through, and I was under contract at ... 
When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster. 
Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about i... 
You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care. 
I like sitting and writing with my buddies. 
I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. ... 
I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself. 
All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a de... 
I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever. 
Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been loo... 
I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my... 
I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I go... 
When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was ... 
I go to South Dakota for ceremonies when I have the time. And when you learn what the Indian peoples... 
Bad things happen sometimes. 
I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music. 
Creative people are more prone to depression. 