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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I think optimism is a moral imperative.
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I think the audience was aware that even when it was farcical, there was the sense that at some level this was about real experience.
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When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.
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Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry. However none of the 'New wave' of directors in Nigeria would know what was possible without the Nollywood model, so I'm grateful to them for showing us that our stories are of interest to people other than Nigerians. I would describe myself as a filmmaker, period.
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Cinema and the arts invite viewers to focus on a story and, in doing so, peel away its layers and peer into the depths of the human soul.
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We want to make the Cleveland Cavaliers a perennial champion and contender. We want people to be part of the franchise for long periods of time if they fit our culture, no matter who they are, whether it's LeBron or anybody that contributes.
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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.
