Jack White Quotes
I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles.Jack White The White Stripes
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He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.
Walter Isaacson -
The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
Mandy Patinkin -
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo -
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T. S. Eliot -
I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
D. B. Sweeney -
Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
Joanne Rowling
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The press in India, I believe, is more free, and happily so, than perhaps media anywhere in the world. Right? Which is a good thing.
Kapil Sibal -
I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
Zooey Deschanel -
Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
Nancy Gibbs -
Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
Garry Hynes -
There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial.
Adam Cohen -
If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
Calvin Johnson
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
Samuel Johnson -
I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
Idris Elba -
There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
Wanda Sykes -
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
Gary Numan -
Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
Barack Obama
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Hip-hop is a contact sport.
Daystar Peterson -
When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a friend, and maybe eight people, tops. There wasn't any premeditation to it at all. It was really just a product of San Franciscan bohemian milieu.
Larry Harvey -
There's a lot of stuff out there that government shouldn't do.
Chuck Fleischmann -
Global warming science is uneven and evolving.
Joe Barton -
Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.
Nico Muhly -
I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles.
Jack White The White Stripes