Jack Antonoff Quotes
I think men are, like, repulsive, and I prefer being in a room with women. I think they're often just more interesting.
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A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Kristen Stewart always looks good - she wears what she wants. It's the same with Alison Mosshart - she chooses clothes that she loves rather than what she thinks she should wear.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.
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What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola. The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of 'art for art's sake' than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore - and then there will be time enough for art.
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Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.
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There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
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Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current, rather, that is somehow akin to the twilight, which brings him rumours of beauty from however far away, as drift-wood is found at sea from islands not yet discovered; and this spring-tide or current that visits the blood of man comes from the fabulous quarter of his lineage, from the legendary, of old; it takes him out to the woodlands, out to the hills; he listens to ancient song.
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I think men are, like, repulsive, and I prefer being in a room with women. I think they're often just more interesting.
