John Prine Quotes
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You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.
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Practice the brotherhood, love, and cooperation insistently enjoined by hundreds of Qur'anic verses and traditions of the Prophet!
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You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'
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My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.
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My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
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I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so it's easy to put everything in a box.
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America's got amazing presentation, especially New York - the most potent, strongest, concentrated, amazing presentation.
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Lewis Black taught me stand-up.
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We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.
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To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it.
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I don't want to live my life to entertain other people. I have other things that I'd like to do.
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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
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I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.
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Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self" is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror.
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We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well.
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My best friends are books, I can easily read them and take them wherever I go.
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I used to read a lot of Steinbeck, and I admired Roger Miller and Bob Dylan.
