Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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It's nothing to be ashamed of and that there are even beneficial traits associated with the condition. Most importantly, acknowledge yourself for who you are and if you're struggling with anything resembling ADD get professionally diagnosed.
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We should never go to war unless we have been attacked or are under direct, immediate threat of attack. Never. And never again.
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How can we ever judge a human being when he is and he will always be another person
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Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
