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“It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.”

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Jack White, born John Anthony White, is an American singer-songwriter and music producer. Known for his unique musical style and diverse artistic achievements, White gained worldwide fame with his band The White Stripes in the mid-1990s. The band's distinctive guitar playing and minimalist music style brought them significant success. Beyond his music career, White has ventured into film, art, and business, establishing Third Man Records, an independent record label dedicated to promoting independent music. more

“I'm always surprised when anything about the band connects. But I love the fact that it's hard for people to understand. We've said before that it's always been a great thing to get certain people to go away thinking, 'Oh dear, she can't play the drums!' 'Fine, if you think it's all a gimmick, go away!' It weeds out people who wouldn't care anyway.”

People Ifs Thinking Said Hard Play Facts Care Certain Fine Band Dear Great Things Going Away Weed Gimmicks

Author:Jack White

“I'd got accepted to the seminary in Wisconsin, and I was gonna become a priest, but the last second I thought, 'I'll just go to public school.' I had just gotten a new amplifier in my bedroom, and I didn't think I was allowed to take it with me.”

Thinking School Lasts Accepted Priests Bedroom Public School Wisconsin Seminary Amplifiers

Author:Jack White

“I'm excited by the band [White Stripes]. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.”

Ifs Knows White Band Boxes Excited Limitation Trapped Stripes White Stripes

Author:Jack White

“You can't do better than that.”

Author:Jack White

“Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.”

Self Character Enemy Expression Self Expression Personal Freedom

Book:On Character: Essays

Source: On Character: Essays

“Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.”

Lines Written Tomorrow Gentleman Quebec

Author:James Wolfe

“I acknowledge that the sacrament of the altar is very God's body in form of bread, but it is in another manner God's body than it is in heaven.”

Body Form Heaven Bread Acknowledge Sacraments Altars

Author:John Wycliffe

“To require conformity in the appreciation of sentiments or the interpretation of language, or uniformity of thought, feeling, or action, is a fundamental error in human legislation -- a madness which would be only equaled by requiring all men to possess the same countenance, the same voice or the same stature.”

Source: Equitable Commerce: A New Development of Principles for the Harmoneous Adjustment and Regulation of the Pecuniary,intellectual,and Moral Intercourse of Mankind,proposed as Elements of New Society

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