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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You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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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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We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
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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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I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.
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Every record is a gate of a certain kind for me.
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When you have very lax parents, you tend to get more conservative kids.
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I would like to continue being radical. As you get older, some of the world catches up and it's passed you. In the '60s you were on the crest of a wave because you were part of the wave. I don't want be a stick in the mud and do the same thing as I did last year, I want to do something different and see what happens.
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All the species recognized by Botanists came forth from the Almighty Creator's hand, and the number of these is now and always will be exactly the same, while every day new and different florists' species arise from the true species so-called by Botanists, and when they have arisen they finally revert to the original forms. Accordingly to the former have been assigned by Nature fixed limits, beyond which they cannot go: while the latter display without end the infinite sport of Nature.
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You have to maintain your principles but have a broader appeal.
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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.
