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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At the end of the day, what would be a Canadian sensibility? Is it Michael Ondaatje? Alice Munro? Is Margaret Atwood more Canadian than Neil Bissoondath?
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A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it.
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While American football is very structured and linear and static - where everyone lines up, and there's a burst, and it happens - soccer is like the cosmos. It's like constellations. It's bodies moving in space. It's a very spherical game.
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I think it's important to understand the concrete ways things work and to respect that. But some things shouldn't be explained, and you have to respect that, too.
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I don't know if it's cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his songs were in that shuffle-blues beat, and I think that's probably why I tend to write like that.
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Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.
