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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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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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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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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Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.
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People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.
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Sometimes the facts can get in the way of the telling of a good story. But they don't get in the way of the truth.
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In 'George Lopez', I played Veronica who's a bratty 18-year-old, and so I feel like it's much easier for me to play that because I feel like a late bloomer. It wasn't difficult or challenging at all because it's not like I haven't been a teenager.
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When I get up, the first thing I do is open up Gmail and check my personal email.
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Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends.
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I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting as an affective space. The place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting. And they can be articulated in different ways.
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We had a saying at Blockbuster: 'If you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother coming in on Sunday.' We worked hard.
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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.
