Jack London Quotes
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Go West, young man.
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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 to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.
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There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator.
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There is no such thing as an immortal work of art. There is one art - the greatest of all, the art of making a complete human being of oneself.
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We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.
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Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.
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He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.
