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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Don't get me wrong: there are some fantastic people who work at British Cycling who kept me together, who were there when I was struggling with it all. They were walking the same tightrope in many ways, because if you do speak up, your days are numbered.
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You have to take the good with the bad, smile when you're sad, love what you've got and remember what you had...Always forgive but never forget, learn from your mistakes but never regret, people change, things go wrong, just remember, life goes on.
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I want to thank Jesus, and by Jesus I mean Jesus Hernandez, my bodyguard
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I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
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I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.
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Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated.
