Jack Kerouac Quotes
So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a character actor.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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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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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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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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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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I no longer think you can live without passion.
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It's important that the drivers stay together, because in difficult moments we have each other. If we are not together the financial and political interests of the organisers and constructors come to the fore.
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Nonviolence worked in Serbia, and it can work in other countries seeking their freedom.
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Film is the most liberal of arts and, at the same time, it can be a very conservative art. Money that is involved in filmmaking is distributed mostly to men, thus creating a celluloid ceiling for women.
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So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.
