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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I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
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President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is.
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Yeah, letting go - even just musically, aside from emotionally - I find that quite challenging. Knowing the right time for letting go of my album, for instance, was a really big challenge. Knowing when to put the red flags up and say, "It's done..." And also, emotionally, with relationships.
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We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
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Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient.
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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.
