Jack White Quotes
It's funny because when you do become successful, you're forced to look backwards and try to crawl back into the womb where you first started to create.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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In some causes silence is dangerous.
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I never ran with my dad. He was old-school. He had a whole different idea of training. He ran in steel-toed boots! But, of course, he's proud of me and proud of the boxer that I became.
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The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that's thankfully worlds away from the Super Supreme I used to order at Pizza Hut as a kid.
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I handle screenings and award ceremonies really badly.
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I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism. I have a ministry and I'll fight for the ministry.
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If you want to conduct terror against Israelis, which is unacceptable, send fighters to do it. Don't send your women and children.
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I wish I knew that when I go in for an audition and I don't get the part, it actually doesn't have to do with me on a personal level.
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I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic.
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When I was a teenager, I used to watch 'Beverly Hills 90210' - which is totally aging myself - and I'd try to recreate the makeup that they did on Jennie Garth at home.
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I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working as a production assistant knocked that right out of me.
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It's funny because when you do become successful, you're forced to look backwards and try to crawl back into the womb where you first started to create.
