Jack Kerouac Quotes
I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with 'Beat'… the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific... People began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the 'avatar' of all this.
Quotes to Explore
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
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I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
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When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!
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There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
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Telecoms is a national business. There isn't a European market. There's no Telecom Italia in France.
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I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.
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It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.
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You're actually making the rest of your day productive by spending 30 minutes reviewing your to-do's, prioritizing them, and ruthlessly removing things that shouldn't be there.
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We don't stop going to school when we graduate.
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You know, you want to be a success. You want people to know who you are.
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I think that in his 39 short years of life, Malcolm X came to symbolize Black urban America, its culture, its politics, its militancy, its outrage against structural racism and at the end of his life, a broad internationalist vision of emancipatory power far better than any other single individual that he shared with DuBois and Paul Robeson, a pan-Africanist internationalist perspective.
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Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
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I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with 'Beat'… the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific... People began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the 'avatar' of all this.
