Jack White Quotes

Inspiration and creativity, they ride right next to one anotherNot everyday are you going to wake up, the clouds are gonna part and the rays are gonna come downsometimes you gotta just get in there and force yourself to work and maybe something good will come out of it.

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• Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Government

• I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Drama
  • Artists
  • Dramatic

• My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Brother
  • Baltimore
  • Mayor

• Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • War
  • Dog
  • Legal

• Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • World
  • Man
  • Comedy

• Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Personal
  • Big
  • Seriously

• It's great that people are interested in Mars.

  

  Jack Schmitt
  • People
  • Great
  • Mars

• I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Believe
  • American

• The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Name
  • Will
  • Redskins

• I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Money
  • She
  • Mother

• All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Action
  • Speak
  • Twilight

• And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.

  

  Jack Nance
  • Guy
  • Nice
  • Now

• Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Want
  • Brain
  • Sometimes

• In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • Job
  • Know
  • Oil

• A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.

  

  Carly Craig
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• There are instances where you're in a space with someone who has been extraordinarily successful, and they don't necessarily connect with you as another person. You can be a prop for them to deliver their stuff, and you're just another element in the scene.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • You
  • Space
  • Successful

• It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Food
  • Thought
  • Alcohol

• Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Everything
  • Connected

• It used to worry me what people said about me. I'm learning not to worry as much. Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don 't take objection to it, because that's the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.

  

  Al Pacino
  • People
  • Time
  • Learning

• I have very strong relationships with my actors when I'm shooting. When you love an actor's work, you always feel you have to go further, and you make several films together. One film just gives you time to get acquainted.

  

  Claire Denis
  • Time
  • Work
  • Together

• I feel like I'm sort of afraid to study too much because I feel like I work as I go, but I want to study the classics and also the technical aspects of things. I'm always looking to understand more.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • Work
  • Study

• Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Great
  • Way
  • Great Writers

• You'll notice that the college people weren't there, and that's because there is no agreement, and it's because these parts of the Open Meetings Act that I just explained to you have not happened, and that's the only way the college can settle a lawsuit.

  

  Bob Sanders
  • College
  • Agreement
  • Notice

• Inspiration and creativity, they ride right next to one anotherNot everyday are you going to wake up, the clouds are gonna part and the rays are gonna come downsometimes you gotta just get in there and force yourself to work and maybe something good will come out of it.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Creativity