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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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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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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In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.
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What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
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It's hard for people to realize now, but my gosh, when I was in school, you could not name a group that was less cool than Kiss. Going in to school with a Kiss T-shirt, you were asking for ridicule. In '77, they were one of the biggest bands in the world, but by '80, there was a severe backlash.
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Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
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It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent.
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Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire into their circumstances and minister to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed. . . I have often tried this method, and have always found it the best medicine for a heavy heart.
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The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted. ... That's a pretty scary thought.
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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.
