Jack Kerouac Quotes
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
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When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.
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I never said, 'I wouldn't help a cricketer if he approaches me.'
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You don't realize how strong you are until you have to help someone else stand up.
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People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
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There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That's when I went on the search for my birth family.
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You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.
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As we sat down, Barney late as usual, it came home to me how there were some things I didn’t miss about drinking, like choosing the wine. This now seemed like a right load of old bollocks. Hey, believe me, in the past I was just as guilty as everybody else. ‘Is it from the south side of the vineyard? Has it been trod by an Albanian virgin?’ All that crap! Basically just showing off, because believe you me, and you know I would not lie to you, a couple of glasses in, and I’m sure no one, not even Barney, could have told the difference between the finest Chablis and donkey piss.
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We have sought truth, and sometimes perhaps found it. But have we had any fun?
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One of the most interesting things about this job is encountering the perceptions people have of me. I'm the person I've always been.
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
