John Prine Quotes
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
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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 you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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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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Universities are not places where police can come and arrest people. Let the children have a discourse as they want to. They will learn as they move on in life. But to target individuals and institutions is dangerous.
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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 actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person.
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I meet a lot of people.
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I was incredibly angry to see Mr. Trump question a judge's motives because of his ethnicity.
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We all know that I love writing Gambit.
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The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.
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In the Army, I was very good at avoiding my job!
