John Prine Quotes

When I was a mailman, writing songs was my escape from the regular world, and now writing songs is my job. And I've always been one to avoid my job.

John Prine

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• I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • People
  • Good
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• My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Hearing
  • Suffered
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• All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Education
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• One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Reading
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• When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Money
  • Think
  • Debt

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Ignorance
  • Case
  • Bliss

• As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Look

• Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Science
  • Profession
  • Ethical

• I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Character
  • Think
  • Hate

• To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Happy
  • Without
  • Be Happy

• I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy of racism and generations of pain.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Team
  • Pain
  • Football

• For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Me
  • Best
  • Partner

• You may not be like everyone else, but that's okay. Be who God made you to be.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • May
  • Everyone

• But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

  

  Patrick McGoohan
  • Day
  • Evil
  • Fight

• For me he's just a hoax. It's empty. It's not interesting. It's dead. Citizen Kane, which I have a copy of - is all the critics' darling, always at the top of every poll taken, but I think it's a total bore. Above all, the performances are worthless. The amount of respect that movie's got is absolutely unbelievable.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Respect

• I say bomb the hell out of them. If there's collateral damage, so be it. They certainly found our civilians to be expendable.

  

  Zell Miller

• I've polished up stories for their reprinted appearances. I guess there's always something to be changed or improved, but one could get carried away and work on one story indefinitely. I'm too restless for that, too eager to begin the next one.

  

  Jeffrey Thomas
  • Up
  • Work

• There's no one who, at some point, hasn't had the feeling their life is on the rails and they can't do anything about it.

  

  Dove Cameron
  • Life
  • Feeling

• The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

  

  Arthur Erickson
  • Art

• I very, very rarely get the opportunity to go shopping and actually feel the clothes and try things on. I love shopping, but I do it mostly through Net-a-Porter.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Opportunity
  • Things
  • Feel

• When I was a mailman, writing songs was my escape from the regular world, and now writing songs is my job. And I've always been one to avoid my job.

  

  John Prine
  • World
  • Job
  • Songs