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
Quotes to Explore
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
Ted Nugent -
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 -
All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
Malala Yousafzai -
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 -
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 -
Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
Victoria Principal
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
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 -
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 -
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 -
You may not be like everyone else, but that's okay. Be who God made you to be.
Victoria Osteen -
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
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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.
Ingmar Bergman -
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 -
By painting colours and lines and forms seen in a quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does.
Edvard Munch -
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.
Fred Wilson -
Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.
Andy Dunn -
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz Kafka
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And from this marvellous pan-Hellenic expedition, triumphant, brilliant in every way, celebrated on all sides, glorified incomparable, we emerged: the great new Hellenic world.
C.P. Cavafy -
I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
William Congreve -
O pray the earth enfold Our life-sick hearts and turn them into dust.
Ernest Dowson -
Jazz musicians don't make any money, so I might as well make some on the market. I pick my own stocks - Microsoft, Dell - the tech stocks, the breadwinners.
Jason Moran -
I absolutely disagree that it was an illegal annexation: a referendum was held, and residents of Crimea chose to rejoin Russia.
Marine Le Pen -
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