Jack White Quotes

I've always been making up my own restrictions for myself, from day one, and it's compelling, because it forces me to think. That's always been a driving force for me.

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• I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.

  

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• Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.

  

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• As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,' or, 'You took a plane to this conference.' So your opinion isn't valid.

  

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• For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.

  

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• The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.

  

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• In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

  

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• I know that I'm not a criminal. People say that, but my music speaks for itself. And I believe in my music.

  

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• I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.

  

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• I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

  

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• The contract I signed wasn't for three or four years. It was for five years.

  

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• He who obeys the command 'Rejoice in the Lord' has a Hallelujah in his soul every minute of the day and night.

  

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• It's all mostly effort when it comes to this game. Maybe some of the younger guys don't have that sense of urgency we obviously need to win basketball games. I think as far as talent we have enough to get over the hump.

  

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• Don't tell lies, ever. No matter what - not even little white lies.

  

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• We invite all to serve the Savior and walk in His paths straightway. There is an urgency for all of us who have this knowledge of His divinity to act upon it without hesitation or delay. The time is now.

  

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• Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

  

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• Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

  

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• Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.

  

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• From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him.

  

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• These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.

  

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• I've always been making up my own restrictions for myself, from day one, and it's compelling, because it forces me to think. That's always been a driving force for me.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
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