Jack Henry Abbott Quotes
When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.

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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
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The future is always the same, and that is to win trophies - next season, in two and three years.
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
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One school invited me down, as two pupils had come out, and the headmaster didn't know what to do about it. I said, 'How many students here are gay?' and he said, 'Just these two.' Clearly not. 'How many gay members of staff have you got?' He had no idea. And this was a concerned man.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
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While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
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I believe in eating as nutritiously as I can all the time... My mother raised me on fresh - rather than processed - foods, and that's how I eat on a regular basis.
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There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring.
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The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.
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I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.
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The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.
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No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.
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Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
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I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
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I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.
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[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.
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For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.
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When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.