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.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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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!
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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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!
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You may not be like everyone else, but that's okay. Be who God made you to be.
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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.
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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.
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I say bomb the hell out of them. If there's collateral damage, so be it. They certainly found our civilians to be expendable.
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By painting colours and lines and forms seen in a quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does.
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I believe the mobile OS market will play out very similarly to Windows and Macintosh, with Android in the role of Windows. And so, if you want to be in front of the largest number of users, you need to be on Android.
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Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.
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One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
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Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can have an audience of thousands. That doesn't make them a journalist any more than my throwing an onion and a few carrots into a pot of boiling water makes me Julia Child.
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You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with some kind of armor on. It just doesn't go.
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The lens through which I view the media world is pretty simple: If you are in the business of sucking up attention, then you are in the media business.
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Little changes can start to make a difference in the world.
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It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.
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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.
