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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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
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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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When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.
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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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Omnium rerum domina, virtus. Virtue is the mistress of all things. Virtue is the master of all things. Therefore a nation that should never do wrong must necessarily govern the world. The might of virtue, the power of virtue, is not a very common topic, not so common as it should be.
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My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.
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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.
