Jack Henry Abbott Quotes
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
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You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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I love playing odd roles.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.
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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
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In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.
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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
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Lobby for Decency Declares Brain an Erogenous Zone, Demands Mandatory Hatting.
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If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.
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These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in an unjust world.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
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To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
