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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Saddam was a bad guy. Assad's a bad guy. Nobody's denying that.
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Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.
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I just like to have one foot in Montana and one foot out.
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Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.
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I want to play defense. I want to get sacks.
