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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Nobody scares me.
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Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.
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The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.
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I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.
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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.