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I talked to my agent and said that, basically, I'm the Taylor Lautner of TV. We both have our shirts off a lot. And we have the same agent, so we goof around about it. I'm waiting to open a script and see my shirt on. — Chord Overstreet

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior. — Harry Allen Overstreet

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith. — Harry Allen Overstreet

I don't want to be compared to Brad Pitt because I don't want to, you know, disappoint anybody. Brad Pitt is an icon. — Chord Overstreet

You don't inspire people by telling them they're wrong. You need to show them something extraordinary so they long to be part of it. — Jeffrey Overstreet

What kind of house will these dreamers become? What will it be like to live among people who don't fidget in fear of what's around the next bend? What kind of melodies will they compose?
He guessed that they would make strange company. Mysterious. Aggressively curious. Scary. Ignoring urgent concerns, distracted by insects and clouds and children. Each would live with one foot planted in another world. No more worry about their reputation. No more sugarcoated persuasion. No more flourishes designed to solicit a shower of coins. Only riddles and play and prophecy. — Jeffrey Overstreet

And for the Keeper, waves splashed, trees swayed, stones protected knowledge, and wind waited for orders. — Jeffrey Overstreet

I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value of the inventive or creative spirit that it will set itself to develop that spirit by all means within its power. — Harry Allen Overstreet

The happiest thing that can be said about democracy ... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility. — Harry Allen Overstreet

I would rather hang out in my house with a couple of friends than go and rage all night. — Chord Overstreet

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality. — Harry Allen Overstreet

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through. — Harry Allen Overstreet

If there's no feast for this appetite
No reason in nursery rhymes
Why can't I shake this great and glorious lie?
And if there's no dawn beyond this dark
No secret stair to climb
Where did I learn the song that shakes the sky? — Jeffrey Overstreet

My real name is Chord Overstreet. I actually got my name because my dad is in the music business as a songwriter. I was the third one in my family born, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name. — Chord Overstreet

It's not weird being recognised, but it's weird having to stop what you're doing to take pictures or sign something. But the fans are the reason you have your success, so it comes with the territory. — Chord Overstreet

The greatest threat to what is best is something persuasively good. — Jeffrey Overstreet

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time. — Harry Allen Overstreet

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy. — Harry Allen Overstreet

I love John Stamos. John's a really friendly, cool dude. — Chord Overstreet

If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures. — Harry Allen Overstreet

A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race. — Harry Allen Overstreet

Krawg's vulturebeak nose twitched in the middle of the few undisciplined whiskers that grew where a mustache did not. — Jeffrey Overstreet

I write alternative, folkie pop. It's very acoustic. — Chord Overstreet

I can play the harmonica with my nose. — Chord Overstreet

When Mother and I learned that Father was dying, Father asked me to sing for him," she said. "Mother insisted that I only sing songs from their youthful days together. She wanted me to take her mind off Father's pain, But when she stepped away, Father asked me to sing songs about pain. About loss. About the world without him. When I played those songs, he would cry. It was the only way he could cry. And now it's the only way I know to cry."
"We need you to lead us in crying, Lesyl, or we'll drown in unshed tears." [King Cal-Raven replied] — Jeffrey Overstreet

Time the devourer of everything. — Harry Allen Overstreet

I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. It was the only instrument that fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into drums when I was six and then started playing guitar when I was seven or eight. — Chord Overstreet

Isn't it strange how most of us reach an age where we just fold up our imaginations and stuff them in our closets? I think I've learned more about you from these impossible dreams than from anything else you've said. — Jeffrey Overstreet

Fall as deep as I fell and you'll find out what's at the bottom. It changes you. — Jeffrey Overstreet

Sometimes distortions can speak the truth. They confirm for me what is real by troubling me with something false. — Jeffrey Overstreet

In book two of his Rhetoric,2 Aristotle identified and explained three means of persuasion that a speaker may use: logos, pathos, and ethos. Logos is the logical argumentation and patterns of reasoning used to effect persuasion. Pathos includes the emotional involvement of both the speaker and the audience as they achieve persuasion. Ethos refers to the character of the speaker — R. Larry Overstreet

To the immature, other people are not real. — Harry Overstreet

Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines the kind of people they become and the kind of society they build. — Harry Allen Overstreet

I watched 'Full House.' I loved 'Full House.' — Chord Overstreet

The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants. — Harry Allen Overstreet

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him. — Harry Allen Overstreet

Throughout your whole career, there's a bunch of people you might have to kiss. Say there's this character opposite you, and you might not be into her - or him, personally. You just gotta' do it. That's your job. — Chord Overstreet

I'm a huge Neil Flynn fan. — Chord Overstreet

I freaking love Gwyneth Paltrow - I think she's awesome. She is fantastic. — Chord Overstreet

I've been playing music since I was born. — Chord Overstreet

The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself. — Harry Allen Overstreet

I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen. — Chord Overstreet

If more people had the courage to discover their potential, we might find that such talents are not so rare — Jeffrey Overstreet

If I'm going to be on national T.V. without my shirt on, I've got to look good. — Chord Overstreet