Jack White Quotes
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
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I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
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Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
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As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
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Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
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I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!
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Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.
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When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.
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I'm like a crockpot on low heat. My mind constantly comes up with ideas, but I abandon a lot of them after a week or two. It's the ones that keep coming to me, that keep picking up flavors, that haunt me, those are the ones that wind up getting written.
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When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
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Any man with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most.
