Jack White Quotes
It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into a songwriter that way, just so I could be able to play with other people.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
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I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.
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Whenever I get on stage, I feel safe and in control. Life can be so uncertain, but on stage, I always know how a drama or crisis is going to end. Acting is a great comfort blanket and has gotten me through countless personal crises. I am a firm believer that the show must go on.
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I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.
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I love blues. My grandfather did blues.
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I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.
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To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.
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If you can't eat it, can't sleep under it, can't wear it or make something from it, it's not worth anything.
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My fear is turnout. I think a lot of people might think: 'Well, in the end, it's the rational thing to stay, but I'll let other people make that choice for me.' Don't. This is very close, no doubt about it.
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I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.
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I think it's important to try to get on a kid's level when taking their photo.
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I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted.
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It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into a songwriter that way, just so I could be able to play with other people.
