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I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.


Jack Canfield

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JACK WHITEHALL I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is ...
JACK WHITEHALL I vote for whoever will annoy my dad.
JACK WHITEHALL When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.
JACK WHITEHALL I'm not actually posh; I'm really rough and from the wrong side of the tracks. I grew up in ...
JACK WHITEHALL I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.
JACK WHITEHALL I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.
JACK WHITEHALL If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes ...
JACK WHITEHALL Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll ...
JACK WHITE A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. Th...
JACK WHITE I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so ...
JACK WHITE I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my fri...
JACK WHITE There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so ...
JACK WHITE If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and e...
JACK WHITE We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer s...
JACK WHITE I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But...
JACK WHITE I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want th...
JACK WHITE I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into thing...
JACK WHITE I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. Ther...
JACK WHITE Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get ...
JACK WHITE I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my li...
JACK WHITE I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bong...
JACK WHITE With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. ...
JACK WHITE When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to h...
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