Jack Kerouac Quotes

So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.

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• Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Day

• Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.

  

  Oleg Deripaska
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Russia

• The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.

  

  Pamela Adlon
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  • Women
  • Age

• The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• With the common Iranian threat bringing the Sunni Arab world and Israel closer together, an Israeli-Palestinian peace would go a long way in improving relations and rebuffing Iran's regional ambitions.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • World
  • Long
  • Together

• Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Work
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• I know I can't plan in this business, but I'm going to keep going as long as I keep getting close... So far, I feel lucky and infinitely grateful for the successes that I've had. I'm just going to keep working hard, and whatever happens, happens.

  

  Aaron Lazar
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  • Business
  • Working Hard

• Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
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  • Feeling
  • Chinese

• 'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.

  

  Samuel Adams
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  • War
  • Happy

• As long as they are working, they should be legalized. I admire so much each and every migrant. They are the most loyal workers in the U.S. economy. They build the homes of those who are attacking them.

  

  Vicente Fox
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  • Economy
  • Admire

• When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Long
  • Want
  • Hips

• Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!

  

  Larry Niven
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  • Know
  • Doing

• As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
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  • Record
  • Metallica

• If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Long
  • Look
  • Old

• Life is one long jubilee.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Life
  • Long
  • Jubilee

• People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Mexican, Mediterranean, Italian, sushi, I love it all. Put it on a plate, and as long as I know what it is, I will eat it.

  

  Camren Bicondova
  • Love
  • Know
  • Italian

• As long as I can buy records and books and maybe some clothes, I'm pretty stoked. I don't need a yacht or anything.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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  • Book
  • Clothes

• It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention.

  

  Chad Harbach
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  • Love
  • Natural

• There's so much that goes into a film that I feel like it's a bit arrogant to say, 'Oh, I never watch my own movies.' Well, it's not just you. There's a whole host of other people. So much skill goes into it. But I would say it does take a couple times seeing it to get a level of perspective.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Couple
  • Movies

• I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.

  

  Katherine Paterson
  • Real
  • Universe
  • Maturity

• So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.

  

  Jack Kerouac
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