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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A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.
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What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and 'going' with this girl, 'Is this true love?'
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Going to war is a serious matter. And it should be done very carefully and deliberately with clear national interests at stake before the United States or our Commander-in-Chief acts.
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Family is the most important thing: you can't buy them with money.
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I encourage everyone I know that whether it be in their workplace, whether it be in a political arena or within their own families, to do what their gut tells them to do. And that involves calling it like they see it and tackling the tasks that are at hand and not worrying so much what other people are thinking or saying about them.
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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.
