Jack White Quotes
You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.
Quotes to Explore
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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People say, 'Wow, you've achieved it all this year: two world championship wins and an Olympic gold medal.' And I think, 'Yeah, but how come I feel so unsatisfied and under pressure all over again?'
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.
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You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter.
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I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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I think people like it when you have a bit of personality.
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I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.
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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'
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I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons.
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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
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I think I have a very good reputation amongst the gay population and among the whole country because I stood up on the issue of gay rights. It is not easy to stand up on that issue when you are single and male in New York City. I did it anyway.
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People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line: the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.
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You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.
