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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I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.
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Everybody literally thinks I've had plastic surgery. My mom's family call her, and they're like, 'Did Hailey do her lips? Did she do her nose?' Do people want me to go to a doctor and have them examine my face so they can tell people I haven't? My face has just matured. I grew into my looks.
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I think the blues will always be around. People need it.
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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
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What I am primarily is a neurogeneticist: I use genetics to study problems in neurobiology. The one problem I study primarily... understanding of the sense of touch.
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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.
