Jack Henry Abbott Quotes
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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For the first time, open source, peer-to-peer protocol developers can monetize their project on a protocol level.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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In the springtime, we have softshell crab from Maryland, which I'd never had until I came to America. In the summer and early fall, we have striped bass, 'stripeys,' which come all the way up the Hudson River but mostly gather in the sound at the tip of Long Island, off Montauk.
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I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.
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Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
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I've had to learn not to read all the bad comments, or if you do, try and not take it into your soul, body, brain, and heart.
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The Koran did not invent or introduce patriarchy.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.