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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My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.
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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 no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn't taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It's not a way to live.
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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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I do think that all politicians today have to be more attentive to people wanting to be heard, wanting to have more control over their lives.
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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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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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I have no interest in making music solely for a white audience. If that's what our audience is, I don't really feel responsible for that.
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I think they all went too far. Their jeans got too low, their tops got too see-through. Personally, I think that sexy is keeping yourself mysterious. I'm really an old-fashioned girl, and I think I'm totally sexy.
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Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.
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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.
