Jack Antonoff Quotes
I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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If there's not enough money in the bank account, you don't spend it.
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Sometimes people look to others for answers they can find within themselves. I don't really want the responsibility of being the guy they look to.
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled to old ways and which, foolishly or shrewdly, combats the old. This is nature’s charge and all progress hinges upon it.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
