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Jack Kerouac Quotes

I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 12, 1922 - October 21, 1969

Topics

Beauty Myself Writing Famous Things

I wasn't born Austrian; I wasn't born German. My roots are from Africa, and I do not have any reason for not wanting to celebrate that. Every time that I can, I like to kind of mention it, you know, just to keep people sort of knowing exactly what's going on. My French is pretty good, but I'm still African, thank you very much.

Good Time People Roots Celebrate

Any candidate who claims his religion has no influence on his decisions is either a dishonest politician or a shallow follower of his faith.

Robert Jeffress

Faith Religion Influence Decisions

Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to the extent that they give you direction.

Goals Focus Direction You Bad Give

I'll never understand why people somehow support pollution. It's completely irrational, and I don't get it. Somewhere along the line, they bought into this fiction that one has to choose between the environment and business, which is just a complete falsehood and absurd.

Steven Van Zandt

Business Support People Choose Why

I think it says something that I have never had an obscene letter. A young man once attempted one, but it was so totally illiterate and hopeless that it made me laugh.

Man Me Think Laugh Young Young Man

Never hold up your entire group of friends in real life trying to capture a perfect Instagram pose. Nobody cares.

Life Friends Trying Perfect Nobody

There are times in Annapolis when a governor's support can move an issue over the goal line.

Martin O'Malley

Support Goal Over Line Move Issue

I love 'Project Runway.' It's my favorite show!

Michaela Conlin

Love Project Runway Show Favorite

I used to wear more makeup, but I've learned to enjoy being natural.

Makeup Enjoy More Wear Natural Used

Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.

Business Great Building Someone CEO

When I first started 'Humans of New York,' I was writing short stories. There were about 50 of them. And, you know, they were a great part of the site, but the photography just started growing so fast that I didn't have time to make them anymore.

Brandon Stanton

Great Time New York Writing Short

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

Thomas Jefferson

Generation Country Will More Right

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