Jack White Quotes
I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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From the pop side, people like Usher, and when they first came out, I listened to guys like K-Ci and JoJo; that '90s R&B thing really caught my ear.
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Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small businesses: both small businesses on Main Street and many of the net new jobs come from high growth, high impact businesses that are located all across the country.
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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
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I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
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I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.
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Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
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Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
