Jack Antonoff Quotes
Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.
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If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).
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Writing has taught me a lot - though far from everything - about writing, so as time has passed, it has become more pleasurable if not easier. I've done other things in life, but writing is by a factor of 10 the most difficult among them. And, of course, you never achieve what you set out to achieve, so you must keep on trying to do better.
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Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
