Jack White Quotes
If you don’t have a struggle inside or around you, you have to make one up.
Quotes to Explore
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
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We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.
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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
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I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.
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I don't think there is a perfect athlete. But if I had to come close to picking someone who demonstrates all the traits that I feel an athlete should have, I would say the perfect athlete would be Tiger Woods. He has the ability, he's humble and he's very good at what he does.
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People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.
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Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.
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I will be the last person to condemn ALF the Animal Liberation Front.
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Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom.
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We had affirmative action programs to help women help themselves economically. Is it now time for affirmative action programs to do for men’s feelings what the government did for women’s economics?
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Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
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Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.
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My family was always playing music; I always enjoyed it. My cousin, who is a little older than me, he started playing music, so I wanted to, also. I asked my dad for a guitar, and he got me a banjo, so that was my introduction to playing. I played it like a guitar. I had a few lessons, learned out a few chords, and figured it out right away.
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I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain.
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The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.
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People rarely speak of children; you hear of 'cohort groups' and 'standard variations,' but you don't hear much of boys who miss their cats or 6-year-olds who have to struggle with potato balls.
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Chris and myself, some nights we're going to struggle and we're not going to be able to get it done. We need other guys to step up. When you get 31 from a guy off the bench, you're supposed to win that game.
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I think it's helpful for kids to know that their parents weren't perfect, that they messed up and learned from their mistakes. So be open about some of your own struggles or express gratitude that your kids are taking advantage of the opportunities they have instead of squandering many of them, the way you did.
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If you don’t have a struggle inside or around you, you have to make one up.
