Jack Kerouac Quotes
We should be wondering tonight, 'Is there a world?' But I could go and talk on 5, 10, 20 minutes about is there a world, because there is really no world, cause sometimes I'm walkin' on the ground and I see right through the ground. And there is no world. And you'll find out.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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For obstacle racing, you wanna be as light, lean, and fast as possible. So, if I lift a lot of weights, I'm gonna be a little bit heavier, which will make it harder for me to hold myself up.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
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Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
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There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.
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Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite.
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I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.
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The control is shifting because of the democratisation of the internet. My industry is very good at building walls to stop people getting in.
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We should be wondering tonight, 'Is there a world?' But I could go and talk on 5, 10, 20 minutes about is there a world, because there is really no world, cause sometimes I'm walkin' on the ground and I see right through the ground. And there is no world. And you'll find out.
