Jack White Quotes
There are distractions, all around. There's so much media, for a young kid to battle against, to get to something soulful. You have to make a decision, on your own, what you can take from these people, if you can dig deeper. It's nice to be able to let people dig deeper.
Quotes to Explore
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.
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I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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When I played in a band, people just stand there and look at you and criticize what they didn't like. But if you watch a D.J. show, people go crazy from beginning to end. Say what you want against D.J.'s, but you can't deny that the energy level in the audience is for the most part far above what rock bands have.
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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
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Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.
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I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
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Knowing how they were sleeping on a dirt floor at that very moment, while I had a soft pillow under my head, made me feel incredibly guilty.
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There are distractions, all around. There's so much media, for a young kid to battle against, to get to something soulful. You have to make a decision, on your own, what you can take from these people, if you can dig deeper. It's nice to be able to let people dig deeper.
