Jack White Quotes
It'll sometimes hit me in the middle of a song, like, who do I think I am standing up here...playing.
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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I don't get star-struck at all.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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I mean, if a camera's on you all the time, you don't get real moments.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.
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I took some of the hardest things about my life and wrote an empowering song with it. It has made me want to always write from that place.
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'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.
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There is that time right around 30 when you think, your twenties have gone by, and now you really are a grown up, and you do have to figure out what you're going to do.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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It'll sometimes hit me in the middle of a song, like, who do I think I am standing up here...playing.
