Jack White Quotes
I think that most people, and by people I mean journalists, think that I pre-conceive everything and that I spend my afternoons dreaming up self-mythologizing points of interest.
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The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
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I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.
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I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.
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There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.
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The threat of nuclear terrorism is growing faster than our ability to prevent an attack on our homeland.
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Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.
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What's funny is that you can think you really value your life until you almost lose it.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.
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Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.
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Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.
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Well, better expelled and able to defend yourselves than sitting safely in school without a clue," said Sirius.
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The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were all but unaffordable, and dynastic spoon succession had become a matter of considerable interest. Spoons were even postcode engraved and carried on one's person to eliminate theft, and good table manners, one of the eight pillars upon which the Collective was built, had been relaxed to allow tea to be stirred - shockingly - with the handle of a fork.
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The most powerful force in the world is compound interest.
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One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
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I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school.
