Jack White Quotes
As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.
Quotes to Explore
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.
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Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.
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All of the people are the dependents of Allah.
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If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.
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I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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'The Producers' is a sort of a once in a lifetime kind of phenomenon, and I was grateful to be a part of it.
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.
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Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
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Too often, while well-intentioned, our poverty programs fail the poor. They fail them by keeping them in cycles of dependency.
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It's always about the music, never about anything else.
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I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.
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It was not enough that India should get Swaraj. It was more important in whose hands the Swaraj would be.
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People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.
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I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all.
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Themes recur again and again in my work.
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For most people, honesty is such an unusual departure from their standard modus operandi - such an abherration in their workaday mendacity - that they feel obliged to alert you when a moment of sincerity is coming on.
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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult.
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As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.
