Jack White Quotes
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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.
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I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
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There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.
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Are we going to just change the personalities in the speakership? Or are we going to fundamentally transform the way we do business here in Washington, D.C.?
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.
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When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.
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I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.
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The only way to advertise is by not focusing on the product.
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One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.
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That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
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It so happens, in Malaysia, the people who are in a way not doing as well constitute the majority of the people - the Bumiputeras.
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To move up to hardcover is a way of getting more attention for my books. It means a lot to me: It means my books are legitimate.
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I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.
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I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.
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My birthmark essentially looks like I have a black eye. It isn't that bad, so you can imagine if it has been this big a part of my life, think of what it must be like for children with more serious birthmarks that cover half their face.
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I'm delighted when people respond with passion and readily intensity to my work. Literature is not as the economist would put it a positional good; in other words, there is infinite space for good literature.
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The interesting thing is that in everyday life, I fail to see the most ordinary things. I often stumble and sometimes I even fall over. But when I draw or look at a painting, I go into a sort of overdrive and just see things differently than other people.
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Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated.
