John Prine Quotes
I did three club tours before I started playing concert halls, and the clubs were half full the first time around.
John Prine
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I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.
Rachel Cusk
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My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system.
Park Geun-hye
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It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.
Daisy Ridley
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I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.
J. Cole
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Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.
Yelawolf
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And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.
Galen Rowell
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
B. C. Forbes
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The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.
Ramez Naam
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I love my passport. I plan trips very last minute, so I always carry it with me.
Waris Ahluwalia
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Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.
Walter Scott
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Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!
Oliver Goldsmith
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Part of the reason I wanted to write a novel was that in fiction I could do something that's difficult to do in real life, which is to dwell on the stark details of the experience without really needing to create that narrative of redemption.
Christina Baker Kline
