Eric Jayk Quotes
I make no mistakes. To be a great leader that has to be your mindset. And honestly, everything happens for a reason.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
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For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They're much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.
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The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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It's hard to kill that father-son bond.
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I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
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I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
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The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody.
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
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A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
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I think the third album will be celebratory and maybe not so inward-looking; that would be great. I think thinking is a good thing but there are times when you just say 'fuck it'. We're allowed to make mistakes.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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Virtue proceeds through effort.
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We caught that individual and we proceeded to beat him brutally. And at one point when I was kicking him on the ground and his face was swollen, covered in blood, he opened his eyes and they connected with mine. that was the first time I felt empathy for one of my victims. And that was the last time I hurt anybody.
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The natural power of breastfeeding is one of the greatest wonders of the world. It is about real love. It is about caring and celebrating the wondrous joy of nurturing a new life. It is about enjoying being a woman.
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I make no mistakes. To be a great leader that has to be your mindset. And honestly, everything happens for a reason.
