Austin Seferian-Jenkins Quotes
I'm me: I'm a fun, easy-going guy that likes to work hard, who's very driven and determined.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.
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I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
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All of my high school issues are resolved!
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I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.
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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
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When I got 'Lost,' I was about to not be able to live, so it was a fall-to-the-knees, burst-into-tears, 'I'm saved by this great role' moment.
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On oilrigs men who only work an 8-hour day are contemptuously called nine-to-fivers. In stark contrast, women are more likely not to take risks, even when the risks are minimal. What's the message to our sons? Our praise of our sons when they risk physical danger teaches them that a willingness to be physically abused creates love. Abuse-as-love? Yes.
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I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.
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I'm me: I'm a fun, easy-going guy that likes to work hard, who's very driven and determined.
