John Prine Quotes
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
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The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.
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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
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The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected.
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If there's one thing I hope people are certain of it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - the taxpayer.
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I play the guitar when I want to relax. But to play the guitar, you cut the nails. So one day, I'll cut the nails off.
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If anybody seeks your advice, offer right and sincere advice.
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On Quora, you're not answering questions because you want to get points or because you have nothing else to do.
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I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.
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Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine.
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Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.
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I don't know a single woman in her 40s who isn't incredibly full of life and sexuality and desire for everything. There's nothing sexier than life experience, and there's nothing sexier than knowing your own body and having a little bit of experience with that.
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During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.'
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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I think I'm realising more and more that I've got a job to do and I can't be doing the big nights out and working to my full potential the next day. I feel much better for it.
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In the Army, I was very good at avoiding my job!
