Jack Gilbert Quotes
We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.
Quotes to Explore
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My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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For anyone who's been in care, successfully coming through the system is nothing to with money or success; it's the ability to feel love and be loved in return.
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Shocked disbelief greets suggestions that many women may take pleasure in rape fantasies, established long ago by Nancy Friday in her pioneering 1973 study, My Secret Garden, and dramatized today by the staggering mass-market popularity of Harlequin Romances, where heroines are overwhelmed by passionate, impetuous men.
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My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.
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Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.
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Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.
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As a journalist, if you want to explore the world, you have to take a risk.
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We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.
