John Prine Quotes
I did three club tours before I started playing concert halls, and the clubs were half full the first time around.

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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.
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It takes a long time to become young.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.
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And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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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.
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I love my passport. I plan trips very last minute, so I always carry it with me.
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At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.
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Having the gastric sleeve procedure and losing 120 pounds, it was a huge difference in how I look in such a short amount of time. It really garnered all the attention.
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Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
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I'm always working on new projects.
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Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country.
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I did three club tours before I started playing concert halls, and the clubs were half full the first time around.