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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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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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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I'm going to be as sincere as I can in delivering the message I think is right. If people agree, great, and if they don't, I did my best.
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It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.
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I can't help but react to the painful realities of the two-tiered society we live in, where the signs of poverty and inequity are everywhere. Almost twenty five percent of our children live at or below the poverty line. We expect the no-option life cycle of the poor to be interrupted by the weak social safety net and then wonder why building more jails doesn't solve the problems.
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Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America.
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I think everyone sings in the shower.
