Jack Antonoff Quotes
I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
Quotes to Explore
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.
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Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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The Zach Johnson Foundation, for my wife and I, is very much a part of what we do and why we do what we do. It's a great platform for us to give back to the community that started me in the game and other communities.
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I like writing historical fiction.
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I remember Karoi as a very hot, flat place, but in reality, it is all hills. We just lived next to an airstrip - the only flat piece of land around. That was my world as a three-year-old and sums up the indelible power of memory to a young child.
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Cricketers like Sachin come once in a lifetime and I am privileged he played in my time
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
