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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It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.
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I never thought I'd be acting. It's very accidental for me.
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I always remind people from outside our state that there’s plenty of room for all Alaska’s animals — right next to the mashed potatoes.
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There exist in the world only two great parties; that of those who prefer to live from the produce of their labor or of their property, and that of those who prefer to live on the labor or the property of others.
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There's no limit to what you can accomplish, but there's always someone one step ahead of you, so it's a constant uphill battle.
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I used to read a lot of Steinbeck, and I admired Roger Miller and Bob Dylan.
