Jack White Quotes

I dislike the word 'emerging artist.' Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to be artists, not rising, emerging, amateur, beginning, but the real thing.

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• Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Up
  • Important
  • Worry

• My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Always
  • Humanity
  • Human

• I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Own
  • Price
  • My Own

• I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Job
  • Age
  • Fashion

• I'm a total people pleaser.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Total
  • Pleaser

• I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Think
  • Way
  • Singing

• The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Me
  • Destruction
  • Weapons

• Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Africa

• I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Man
  • You
  • Rocky

• Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Home
  • Stage
  • Presentation

• When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Mickey Mouse

• I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Never

• I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Work
  • Music
  • Me

• Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • Life
  • Leadership
  • Easy

• That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Kind
  • Mean
  • Vicious

• I have an obsession with hot sauce. I love Cholula. I put Cholula on everything.

  

  Becky G
  • Love
  • Have
  • Obsession

• This idea that you can watch a show like 'True Detective,' and it was awesome, but is it really ruined for you if the finale is not your favorite episode of it? It's just odd to me.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • True
  • Idea
  • Favorite

• The minute I understand a man, he is no longer exciting and a challenge to me. And the last thing in the world I want is for a man to understand me and know what's always going on inside my head. It takes away from all my mystery, which, as I've told you before, is the most important thing between a man and a woman.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • World
  • Important
  • Man

• I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Book
  • Myself

• Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Character
  • Control
  • Wealth

• By now, we all know that Hollywood producers always chase after the same properties, that the sharks circle simply because the other sharks are circling.

  

  Jeff Giles

• Social media lacks insight, common sense, and emotion. Understand that while it's easy to condemn celebrities on social media, people should also think of repercussions their insensitive remarks can make on the celebrities' family.

  

  Neil Nitin Mukesh
  • People
  • Family

• I dislike the word 'emerging artist.' Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to be artists, not rising, emerging, amateur, beginning, but the real thing.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Beginning
  • Artist
  • Alligator