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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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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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 want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.
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When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.
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I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.
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I'm not the type of guy who wants the credit.
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I've started to see records as just a snapshot, a portrait of where you were at at that time. And if you're comfortable with that, sometimes it's like an old high school year book picture - it makes you blush a little bit, but you gotta learn to really appreciate each stage of your life and where you're at.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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I think everyone sings in the shower.
