Jack Kerouac Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.
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I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
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America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.
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My priority is the script. Get me a good script, and I will sign the movie. I think I should leave the casting up to the experts!
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
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There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
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Typically, when you sell your story rights to a movie production company, they can do whatever they want with it. The writer is typically not involved anymore.
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Love is sacrifice.
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A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
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It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.
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I often saw weary little women coming to the table after most exhausting labors, and large, bumptious husbands spreading out their hands and thanking the Lord for the meals that the dear women had prepared, as if the whole came down like manna from heaven. So I preached a sermon in the blessing I gave. You will notice that it has three heresies in it: Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity's sake, Amen.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.
