Adam Yauch Quotes

What Western society teaches us is that if you get enough money, power, and beautiful people to have sex with, that's going to bring you happiness. That's what every commercial, every magazine, music, movie teaches us. That's a fallacy.

Adam Yauch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 5, 1964 - May 4, 2012

Topics

HappinessMusicPowerBeautifulYou

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

Jock Sturges

BeautyStrangePhysicalThing

I am a monkey fan.

Jerry Jones

I AmMonkeyFanAm

Violence, as it is for the mafia and most other criminal organizations, was bad for pirate business. By doing battle with prey, pirates risked damage to their own ships and injury to their crews. It also made them bigger targets for law enforcement.

Robert Kurson

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I am the original... Those are my disciples.

Michael Irvin

I AmOriginalDisciplesThoseAm

Women love the bad boy.

Rob Liefeld

LoveWomenBadBad BoyBoy

We promised new benefits to seniors like preventive screening and diabetes testing. We kept that promise.

Mike Rogers

DiabetesNewTestingSeniorsPromise

Sadly, semi-consciousness, along with daydreaming, is a capacity that is actively discouraged among children in schools, and our society is much poorer and harsher as a consequence. The value of liminal space and transitional imagination remain personally and culturally undeveloped.

Michael Leunig

ChildrenImaginationValueSpace

Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and act as if they understand what's going on; and some are elected to high office on the basis of their ability to create this impression.

Michael Leunig

LifeChildCreateUnderstandOffice

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

RelationshipHistoryMoviesWillOut

Surprise is important. I think that's the essence of entertainment, really.

Brad Paisley

ThinkSurpriseImportantEssence

Through most of my life, music has been like a radio that plays and plays in my head.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

LifeMusicMy LifeRadioHeadBeen

What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.

Anselm Kiefer

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