Austin Seferian-Jenkins Quotes
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Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
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Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I'm just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It's the happiest place on earth, right?
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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Because the Republicans are never going to turn on Trump so long as he still has his base, and he will continue to have his base so long as this idea that he is standing up for workers, it remains intact. And the only way that that gets eroded is if it isn't just about Russia all the time, but is also about those economic betrayals.
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There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.
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As for a fantasy life, working women are more likely to fantasize about finding the perfect child care provider who she can both trust and afford. She might also fantasize that tonight her husband will both shop for and cook dinner.
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I'm the kind of person, I leave a little space for better.
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Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.
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Anybody who has spent time with the networks - in fact, you don't even have to spend time with the networks, all you have to do is just watch primetime TV - and you think, 'What the hell are they doing? I could run the network better.' And I think everybody feels that way.
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The course of business shapes public opinion.
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I have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that my interpersonal skills improve. As an individual, I was happiest when left alone.
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Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
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Even though there are incredible songs floating around Nashville, it's important for me to have my voice heard.
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Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the Clinton parenthesis in presidential history, is refreshingly cerebral amid this recrudescence of the paranoid style in American politics. He is the un-Edwards and un-Huckabee - an adult aiming to reform the real world rather than an adolescent fantasizing mock-heroic 'fights' against fictitious villains in a left-wing cartoon version of this country.
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I want to play defense. I want to get sacks.
