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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Ever since I've ever heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise - as clean as possible, anyway, and more or less tuned to people. Something they could understand, something that was beautiful, you know?
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Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
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If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.
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I'm really only responsible for my own actions.
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Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
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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.
