Jack White Quotes
I gave myself over to music and art a long time ago, so I don't get to relax and I don't get to sit still. The best I can do is constantly create my own environment so it benefits what I need to accomplish in the next step.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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Hair and make-up always helps. I did always try to be well-groomed, professional at all times. Take your job seriously - but not yourself.
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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I think Gotye is really dope. The music that I enjoy listening to isn't as intense as my music is.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
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I prefer music that invents a universe.
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Forty years ago, my life in music was substantially different to today. I went out every night with my guitar seeking a place to sing, a floor on which to lie, some love, some food, a lot of wine. There was no business, no gigs, no questions, no P.R., recording, life was simpler, I was poor and young and hungry. Today I am a lot more focused on The Song.
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I gave myself over to music and art a long time ago, so I don't get to relax and I don't get to sit still. The best I can do is constantly create my own environment so it benefits what I need to accomplish in the next step.
