Jack Antonoff Quotes
I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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I love the States and their attitudes about entertainment.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
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If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I think twerking is overrated.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.
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The things I wanted to do from a very early age - ie. get married and have children - precluded a lot of guys my own age from wanting to have anything to do with me.
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Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
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Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans don't like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go after big government and big unions, and only talk about small businesses.
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You're only lonely if you're not there for you.
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I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's a far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
