Jack White Quotes

In all my songs, I take on roles and play characters. It's a unique way to explore ideas and decisions I might not think or make in real life.

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• Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Time
  • Songs
  • Out

• If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Decision
  • Process
  • Will

• I want to say that maybe I've made some wrong decisions, but I'm still an honorable person, and I intend to take care of all of my obligations.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Want
  • Care
  • Decisions

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• I love writing songs.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Songs

• I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Me
  • Songs
  • Special

• The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Guy
  • Influence
  • Songs

• Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Management
  • Decisions

• Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Moral

• Most of us tend to be swayed by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why they have to be exceptionally careful in rendering decisions, which cause unintended consequences.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Why
  • Decisions
  • Consequences

• Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Party
  • Justice

• I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Day
  • Luck
  • Decisions

• And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • American
  • Decisions

• With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Love
  • Songs
  • Prove

• A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Songs
  • Worth
  • Heartbreak

• Every battalion has its marching songs.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Songs
  • Every
  • Marching

• I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Up
  • Done
  • Experience

• I don't have many easy songs.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Easy
  • Songs
  • Many

• I don't consider myself, you know, in real life one of those funny guys. My comedy comes through my work.

  

  Eugene Levy
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Consider

• As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, `Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.'

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Child
  • Born
  • Laws

• With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.

  

  Jack Black
  • Acting
  • Satisfaction
  • Brains

• Fans decide what pop culture is. We can define ourselves. Music and the presentation of art nowadays is totally in our control, with the Internet specifically. You no longer need record labels. You no longer need movie distribution companies. You can just make it and put it online, and it will distribute itself to millions of people. The borders and everything have been broken down. It really is in the hands of the people.

  

  Laura Jane Grace Against Me!
  • People
  • Art
  • Culture

• ...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Friends
  • Edmund Dantes

• In all my songs, I take on roles and play characters. It's a unique way to explore ideas and decisions I might not think or make in real life.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Songs
  • Characters
  • Decisions