Jack White Quotes
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.
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I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.
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For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.
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Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really work.
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Running doesn't come easy to me, especially the first thirty or so minutes. My message is take it one step at a time.
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You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'
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My dad worked two jobs his whole life, and so I told him he's the reason I have 20 jobs.
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The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.
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My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school!
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If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.
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We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.
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Put hot triggers in the path of motivated people.
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One of the nice things about being in a band is that you depend on each other for ideas, so it's not all up to me to do everything myself. There's always that fear that you'll run out of stuff. The most difficult part for me is writing lyrics, and that starts to get difficult after you've written, like, 120 songs.
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Well, I sort of don't trust anybody who doesn't like Led Zeppelin.
