John Prine Quotes
Soon as I could play one guitar chord and laid my ear upon that wood, I was gone. My soul was sold. Music was everything from then on.
Quotes to Explore
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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I don't care if you're Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or whatever your religion is, when you listen to a spiritual song and you really open your heart, you can feel it. You can feel the message of it. Just a simple story.
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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
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In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'.
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
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The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat about washing my hair.
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Denmark is a small place. We all know each other.
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You don't want to overeat too much because then you have to work twice as hard.
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Once, at Thanksgiving, a neighbor wandered in while my cousin Lisa worked on a turkey, shearing meat off its frame and sliding the steaming slices onto a big flowered plate. 'Hey, that's the man's job,' she yelped, in between slurps of her Big Gulp. No one even paused to acknowledge the comment; everyone just laughed and laughed.
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Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry.
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Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.
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Soon as I could play one guitar chord and laid my ear upon that wood, I was gone. My soul was sold. Music was everything from then on.
