Jack Antonoff Quotes
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
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According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.
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Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.
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I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.
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Now that I am in my forties, she [my mother] tells me I'm beautiful; now that I am in my forties, she sends me presents and we have the long, personal and even remarkably honest phone calls I always wanted so intensely I forbade myself to imagine them. How strange. Perhaps Shaw was correct and if we lived to be several hundred years old, we would finally work it all out. I am deeply grateful. With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.
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Ebola has shown that the world is not ready to deal with an epidemic on this scale.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
