Jack Kerouac Quotes

As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing.

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• At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • Home
  • Attitude

• But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Believe
  • Why
  • You

• I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Work
  • Live
  • Present

• I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Play

• Act because you love to act.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Love
  • You
  • Act

• The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • War
  • Law
  • Military

• On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Achieve
  • Anger
  • Apology

• Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Heart
  • Perspective
  • Losing

• When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Power
  • Single
  • Year

• I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • Yoga

• Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • World
  • War
  • Peace

• Custom adapts itself to expediency.

  

  Tacitus
  • Custom
  • Itself
  • Expediency

• I don't like writing with real people in mind.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Love
  • American
  • America

• Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Strive
  • Favors

• When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Done
  • Want
  • Career

• Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • May
  • Party

• Pioneer women were very tough - they had to be, because the men go off for long periods of time, and the women would have to be able to protect themselves and their homes.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Time
  • Book
  • Travel

• I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake and it really removes you from it.

  

  Elliot Page
  • People
  • Movie
  • Fighting

• I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody.

  

  Dee Snider

• As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Monster
  • Destruction
  • Pitiful

• As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Perfect