Jack Kerouac Quotes
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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If you have Trump avoiding income tax and money coming in, and then he's still able to control it and use it as if it was his income to help his interests, then you're starting to see a bigger legal problem.
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I don't mind my hand shaking so much; it improves my S cast.
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Life itself is exponential.
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He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.
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Here was a place where men and life and death had reached the lowest form of degradation. How could any reward in national progress even faintly justify the establishment and operation of such a place?
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Believe in the holy contour of life
