Jake T. Austin Quotes
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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I can't imagine being mayor and not having had the experience working for President Clinton or President Obama, or, for that matter, working in Congress. On the other hand, I think I would have been a better adviser had I been mayor first. If I had had this job first, I could have seen the implications of things I was doing.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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I haven't had an orthodox career.
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I grew up in a little bubble of Brooklyn in France! In Stains, I was learning to speak English; I was listening to Biggie Smalls and KRS-One, and so I basically lived the life by proxy. At the same time, I had the same problems and issues they were singing about right next to me, so it was easy to identify with it.
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I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.
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I think we spent 60-something million on 'Hateful Eight,' which is actually more than I wanted to spend, but we had weather problems. And I wanted to make it good.
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I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.
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The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance.
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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
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If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?
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I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.
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I think everyone sings in the shower.
