Jack London Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Go West, young man.
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When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
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A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.
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So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.
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I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.
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I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
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One with the law is a majority.
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I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
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When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.
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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
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Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.
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By the time we've made it, we've had it.
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A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.
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I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.
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In Europe, we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.
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I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
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I don't have any issues with clowns - I feel like I owe them an apology in some ways.
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It's a blessing to be paid to be in paradise. The Hawaiian people are so friendly.
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We used tea towels for gloves until we got proper ones and were always breaking our mum's ornaments. She'd come home and find us all sat in our boxer shorts, out of breath and our skin red raw. She hated it.
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He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.
