John Prine Quotes
My music has been called so many different things over the years. I figure as long as it's selling, call it what you want.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.
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I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
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This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
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I know that I'll end up being a role model for many, many people out there for all kinds of reasons.
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Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
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We could have a budget that brings Americans together.
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I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.
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Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us.
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The knowledge of reality, achieved by means of the complete sensory equipment, must be expressed artistically in terms of a medium which appeals to the memory of all sensory experience - but only through the eye.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual. Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it. The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race. The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.
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When I'm playing in a close game, I'm out on the floor only trying to help the team win.
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If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it.
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The team comes first. We want to keep all of our players. We want to take care of all of our players, but the team comes first.
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As a musician myself, I wouldn't be confident if I received some other composers' song, because I choose to express myself through the music that I make.
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Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.
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There are so many good roles for women out there, I don't understand it when people say the role choices are fewer as you get older. I find the opposite to be true - there are less good roles out there for the hot 20-year-olds because the normal girl parts just aren't interesting.
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My music has been called so many different things over the years. I figure as long as it's selling, call it what you want.
