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Adam Mansbach Quotes

When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.

Adam Mansbach

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: July 1, 1976

Topics

Time Yourself Partner You Bed Kid

As I was leaving graduate school in 1974, I was recruited to join a fledgling SETI project at the Hat Creek Observatory in California, mainly because I knew how to program an ancient PDP8/S computer that had been donated to the project.

Jill Tarter

School Hat Leaving California Creek

But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews... I know, it's part of the job, but that doesn't imply I have to like it.

Andrew Eldritch

Ride Job Waiting Long You Airport

Personally, I do movies the way I cook: I put in what I like in case nobody else likes it and I have to eat it for the rest of the week.

Melvin Van Peebles

Rest Week Nobody Movies Way Eat

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.

Robert Jackson

Money Men More Than Often Loyalties

I started to practise shooting more seriously, more than once a week. I wasn't very good at it before, but I got a lot better. I've also become a little bit stronger on the tracks, too, which has increased my chances of success.

Tora Berger

Success Good Better Week Stronger

S Club 7, in some ways, was a continuation of some of the things I'd have liked to have done with the Spice Girls. It was also a shift in tone. S Club was this equality of boys and girls, very positive, very uplifting, didn't have the edge of the Spice Girls. I didn't want to repeat it.

Simon Fuller

Positive Equality Edge Done Spice

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

Tomas Transtromer

Poetry Society Dark Place Separation

People who love the applause should have it, but I don't care for it.

Ry Cooder

Love People Care Who Applause

As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and sometimes writing takes a turn and it's not something we necessarily have control over. It's just a lot of random dumb luck, so when things click, you've just got to enjoy it.

Mike Colter

Time Luck Writing Control Random

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.

Ludwig Quidde

War Real Danger Necessity Because

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Joseph Campbell

Life Inspirational Hero Someone Her

The Kwajalein waters are incredibly lucid: vision typically up to three hundred feet.

Dennis L. McKiernan

Vision Feet Three Up Lucid Hundred