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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Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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Every being in the universe is an expression of the Tao. It springs into existence, unconscious, perfect, free, takes on a physical body, lets circumstances complete it. That is why every being spontaneously honors the Tao. The Tao gives birth to all beings, nourishes them, maintains them, cares for them, comforts them, protects them, takes them back to itself, creating without possessing, acting without expecting, guiding without interfering. That is why love of the Tao is in the very nature of things.
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Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.
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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.
