Jonathan Galassi Quotes
There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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Some of my favorite pieces are from thrift shops. When I find something I really love, I live, work and sleep in it.
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Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.
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Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.
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We wanted to write a whole song about partying and then taking Yellow Cabs home. That's the weirdest topic we've ever thought of centering a song around.
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In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.
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Just as you go to the gym regularly to keep your body fit, regular couples counseling can keep your relationship fit as well.
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I'm obviously not a guy who focuses on weight too much. But for certain jobs, you have to gain or lose weight.
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Hassan's not going anywhere. He's staying right here with us, where he belongs. This is his home and we're his family. Don't you ever ask me that question again!
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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When the ANC says that they will target British companies, this shows what a typical terrorist organisation it is. I fought terrorism all my life and if more people fought it, and we were all more successful, we should not have it and I hope that everyone in this hall will think it is right to go on fighting terrorism. They will if they believe in democracy.
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Hello everybody! Hey hey hey! Okay! Do you know it's not... it's not very often that we do shows in daylight. And I fucking wish we'd done before, I can see you all now. And there's some beauties here tonight, I can tell you!
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There's something about girls together, uniting, that I just thought was cool.
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You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal.
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If you put out quality music, you're always going to be in a good place.
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I love my pop music.
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I drink a lot of coffee.
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You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.
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The great cognitive shift is an expansion of consciousness from the perspectival form contained in the lives of particular creatures to an objective, world-encompassing form that exists both individually and intersubjectively. It was originally a biological evolutionary process, and in our species it has become a collective cultural process as well. Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.
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You just try and do as much variation and as much difference and as much as possible, so you put yourself out there to try anything, really. As long as you feel you're going to get something out of the experience, it's all worth it.
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There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.
