John Prine Quotes

I've been fortunate enough to always have plenty of work, offers to go out and play shows. The hardest thing I have to do is pick out which one I want. For some reason, there's a great demand out there, whether I've got a new record out or not.

John Prine

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• The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Reality
  • Control
  • Emotions

• My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Made

• Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.

  

  Washed Out
  • Real
  • Moving
  • Challenge

• When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Game
  • Decisions
  • Stock

• Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Children
  • Future
  • Education

• Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Great
  • Support
  • Comedy

• The way to a man's heart is through his chest.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Way

• I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Political

• We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Human
  • Birth
  • Human Beings

• I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Trying
  • Girl
  • Try

• If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Romance

• We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Made
  • Three
  • Facebook

• We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • World
  • Different
  • Live

• The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Energy
  • Change
  • Wood

• The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Sin
  • Greatest
  • Boring

• I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling story, compelling drama, a show about great characters that you care about and you want to come back every week to see what they're up to.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• I've been vegan longer than I've been a singer. And it's definitely something that I try to put across in my work, but that's just because I really care about it.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • Work
  • Singer
  • Vegan

• If you create a good story that has a lot of story value I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • Thinking
  • Audience
  • Values

• This joyfulness that I felt when I sang, and this need to communicate with people, these are my two strongest points. I've always been a people person. I love people; I like to be with people, and when I got on stage, I was home free.

  

  Beverly Sills
  • People
  • Home
  • Free

• I've been fortunate enough to always have plenty of work, offers to go out and play shows. The hardest thing I have to do is pick out which one I want. For some reason, there's a great demand out there, whether I've got a new record out or not.

  

  John Prine
  • Work
  • Shows
  • Record