John Prine Quotes
There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
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If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.
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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
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It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
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I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
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I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
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Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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I don't put on makeup when I'm getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?
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Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides.
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The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer.
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Win or lose, I always like to get back to my friends and family. They keep me grounded. When I'm home with my friends, I'm always the same Gabriel. I'm no better or worse in their eyes because of my results. It's good to be with your true friends. It always reminds me of where I'm from and who I am.
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Dick Clark and I had such a hysterical relationship with each other.
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Denmark nursed that anger and it kept him free.
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I was heavy as a kid. I mean, I kind of got it together for a while there in my 20s and early 30s.
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The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be.
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I will, till the day I die, be an advocate for the d-word: diversity.
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Everybody who is a Republican wants to call themselves conservative even if they don't necessarily vote that way.
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The first time I rode a bike I was four or five. I crashed into the back of a car.
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I guess I was maybe in little league baseball as far as I wanted to be good at that. But school, I certainly wasn't the best at that. But comedy thing and making movies and stuff, I love it so much that I do get driven to push myself as hard as I can.
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I don't do celebrity endorsements. My work with Conservation International is a good use of whatever celebrity I might have to draw attention to important problems. I have the same responsibility as everyone to reduce consumption and to teach children to respect the environment.
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There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.
