Jack White Quotes
It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.
Quotes to Explore
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
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I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
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My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
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I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.
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America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
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Translation is the art of failure.
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You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I'm pushing myself as an artist creatively, because I'm just bored doing what everyone wants me to do.
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The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.
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Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.
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A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.
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Sir; You are directed to have a transport.. sent to the colored colony of San Domingo to bring back to this country such of the colonists there as desire to return.
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Anybody that I can work with that will help improve the lives of New Yorkers, I will work with that person.
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I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.
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It is a hard thing when one has shot sixty-five lions or more, as I have in the course of my life, that the sixty-sixth should chew your leg like a quid of tobacco. It breaks the routine of the thing, and putting other considerations aside, I am an orderly man and don't like that. This is by the way.
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The sound world that I created for 'Avatar' had to be very different, really, than anything I ever created before. There is also three hours of music.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.
