Jack Antonoff Quotes
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I have to be able to rap. I don't have the look. I don't have the typical slim-dude, fancy-clothes look. That's not me. I have to be able to rap - there is no other choice, or else I get eaten alive.
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I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on.
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Our expectation is that the Russian Federation does its part to protect its own citizens in full respect of human rights principles.
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As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.
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Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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When I was younger, I always liked acting. You know, like, acting locally, or community theater at school. But it's not an especially insured career choice, so I was like, 'It's a hobby. Whatever.'
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What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.
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That's my suggestion for kids who want to act, by the way: Make sure it's really your choice, get out of it when it stops being fun, and get an education.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
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Every social need, such as the need for friendship, must be a party to its own satisfaction: I cannot passively find my friend as a ready-made friend; a ready-made human being he may be, but his friendship for me I must help to create by my own active resolve.
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It costs a lot of money to be rich.
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
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But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.
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We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.
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That's what is incredible about human beings, is the choice to keep going.
