Jack White Quotes
Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.
Quotes to Explore
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.
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There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
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The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.
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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.
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To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
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If I had to work a 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. job in the public service, I'd freak out.
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After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces from the bikinis designed for the cabaret performers of Folies Bergeres. I was so happy with them that it was only then that I sought out formal training in jewelry.
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All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.
