John Prine Quotes

There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.

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• To make headway, improve your head.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Make
  • Head
  • Improve

• Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Music
  • Like
  • Choice

• The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Money
  • Walking
  • More

• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Together
  • Song
  • Relationship

• I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Health
  • Government
  • Economy

• I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Time
  • Children
  • Support

• If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Way
  • Interesting

• Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Miracles

• If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough to find ways to get it out there, one being something like Jameson First Shot.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Good
  • Find
  • Creative

• The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Real
  • Paris
  • Valley

• The majority of actor kids are really competitive. But Gabby Sidibe on 'The Big C' has been a big help to me. Her career went from zero to a hundred in about one second, so she's warned me what to expect.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Help
  • Career
  • Expect

• I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Sad

• Neither conservatives nor humorists believe man is good. But left-wingers do.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Believe

• Let’s say this together: 'Great me no greats', and leave this grading to posterity.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Great
  • Together

• Sometimes I don't know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Different
  • Game
  • Past

• When I get anxious and scared, I probably lose my temper more than I should.

  

  Dawn Steel

• To win the major, you have to play two weeks your best tennis and deal with a lot of things around, to put things together so to be really focused.

  

  Angelique Kerber
  • Together
  • Tennis

• You can't swing with hesitation; you can't try to steer the ball to the flag; you can't worry about that water hazard as you take the club back. You have to pick the right club, visualize the shot you want to hit, and then focus on that shot until the ball is gone.

  

  Keegan Bradley
  • Water
  • Focus
  • Worry

• I've played in small markets; I've played in big markets. For me, basketball is inside the arena. It doesn't recognize what market you're in. It's about wins and losses, and that's the way I approach it.

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Small
  • Basketball

• I would love to be employed for the rest of my life... But what I would want to do is things that would frighten me, things that would scare me. I've never done that before; can I do that, can I show them that I can do it?

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Done
  • Rest

• I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Never

• When I was producing 'Formula Vol. 2,' I knew I needed to come hard with the features and do something I hadn't done with Aventura. Collaborating with Drake was definitely one of those big steps that helped bachata go to the next level.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Done

• If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • President
  • Wrote
  • Performed

• There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.

  

  John Prine
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