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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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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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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These terrorists are the enemies of the Iraqi people themselves.
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Windmills and solar cells are carbon-free sources of electricity. But they are costly. If you've been investing in those, give it up. That game is effectively over.
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If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.
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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.
