Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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The world is always in movement.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played two verses, then go off and jam for 20 minutes, come back and do a chorus and end. And I love the live jam stuff, the improvisation.
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Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?
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You do a drama, and you are limited by the rules of reality, and in science fiction, you create your own reality. Some people find that daunting; I find it challenging.
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I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!
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I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
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My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
