Jack White Quotes
I would never be able to live in a huge city. I'd feel like one of 100,000 people doing the same thing.
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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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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You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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Us comics guys tend to get really good at the things we draw a lot. I'm good at creepy old forests, Victorian houses, underground goblin cities, and beautiful but creepy fairies.
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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As members of Congress, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, not the Republican or Democratic party. I have been willing to stand up to my own leadership when it's in the national interest.
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Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
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As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library down the street so that the generations served by that library grow up to be adults who contribute not just to their local communities but to the world.
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Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organization. But they know nothing of their own lives.
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If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.
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Basically It's a hypocritical view, because what your saying is it's okay for us to live in the dirt, in the gutter, in less than human conditions, but it's not okay for us to tell people that we are living in these conditions.
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We have a lot of relationships to the gatekeepers who can rally their people to go to the movie theater. It's a trusting relationship.
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I still have people saying to me, 'Oh, you're still together?' They don't realize Leppard's been around this whole time, because people just don't get to hear us.
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I would never be able to live in a huge city. I'd feel like one of 100,000 people doing the same thing.
