John Prine Quotes

One time, I went to school, and they asked us all to find out where our roots were. It's goin' around the class, and the kids were going, 'I'm Swedish-German' or 'I'm English-Irish.' They got to me and I said, 'Pure Kentuckian.'

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• There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'

  

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• Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

  

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• We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.

  

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• If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

  

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• I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.

  

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• I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.

  

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• High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.

  

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• If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do what Katharine Hepburn did or what Rosalind Russell did. Those kinds of characters, that kind of patter, that kind of language, that kind of script. They don't exist any more.

  

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• We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

  

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• I believe I was ahead of my time.

  

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• And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.

  

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• Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

  

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• I'm not surprised 'The Avengers' has such enduring popularity, because it was a groundbreaking series that changed television. It was the first show that put its leading man and leading lady on an equal footing and showed a woman fighting and kicking and throwing men around. That was a radical departure in its time.

  

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• When I was in high school, there's no doubt I was trying to swing like Tiger Woods when he first came on tour.

  

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• I stopped singing for a long time because it just wasn't something I was very passionate about.

  

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• Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

  

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• People misinterpret what I say all the time: They think I'm being offensive, when really, I'm only being opinionated.

  

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• Every time I've ever gotten close to being successful, I've found some way to screw it up.

  

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• Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again!

  

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• You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them.

  

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• I no longer need to be someone's wife. I'm doing okay as I am.

  

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• It was predictable, of course, but now that a date had been fixed, March 12th, it was as if I had been strolling absentmindedly and banged into a door.

  

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• One time, I went to school, and they asked us all to find out where our roots were. It's goin' around the class, and the kids were going, 'I'm Swedish-German' or 'I'm English-Irish.' They got to me and I said, 'Pure Kentuckian.'

  

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