John Prine Quotes

Man, I hated school. I'd stare at the buttons on the teacher's shirt the whole class.

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• Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

  

  O. Henry
  • Man
  • Hands
  • Dollar

• I'm very competitive, and I want to win.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Want
  • Win
  • Competitive

• The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Think
  • Personality
  • I Think

• The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • World
  • Fun

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Work
  • Home
  • Light

• Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • I Can

• I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • Time
  • Song

• There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

  

  Karen Black
  • End
  • Gold
  • Rainbow

• There's not a formula that I'm following; it's just how I feel at the time. For instance, I did a very experimental film called 'Hardcore Henry,' and that was simply because I thought the filmmaker was very interesting and a risk taker. A film like that had never been made before, so I chose to do that at the time.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Risk

• The one thing I've always done, because I like the sound of my guitar from where I sit - meaning not in front of it - so what I do is, I put microphones around my ears. I have them around my head, too. I don't know if it's a superstitious thing, but it's actually how I recorded my first album.

  

  Kaki King
  • Done
  • Know
  • Guitar

• You're gifted to do something.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • You
  • Something
  • Gifted

• The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Up
  • History
  • Peace

• I'm not in the business of politics.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Business
  • Politics

• In Israel, if a person doesn't agree with you, she just says no. In Alabama, someone would say, 'I'll think about it.' We would take that literally. So, if you ask for a favor and someone says they'll think about it, they're really not thinking about it.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Thinking
  • Agree
  • Alabama

• I'm Angelina Jolie's sidekick in 'Maleficent'. It's cool.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Cool
  • Sidekick

• I like roles of people who can overcome things because there's strength in that and an arc - and roles where they start in one place, and toward the end of the script they end up in a completely different place, so you've seen this growth and some humanity in the role.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Day
  • Evil
  • Everyday

• I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's always a manure pile. You're on the top, or you're on the bottom, but it's still a manure pile, and I'm not sure the movie industry isn't like that, too.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Desire

• Raised in a house filled with old books, I'm drawn to them: the dust jackets that call out a historical moment, the marbled boards, the words pressed into the page with movable type.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • House
  • Words

• I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • School
  • High
  • Acting

• Went off to school, and learned to serve the state. Followed the rules, and drank his vodka straight. The only way to live was 'drown the hate'. The Russian life was very sad, and such was life in Leningrad.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Live
  • School

• I get really worried, like if they say, 'Take vocal lessons,' or something because it's kind of like I used to really love to draw when I was a kid and then I took like an art class - because everyone said, 'Oh, you're so good, you should take a class and maybe you can be really good,' and then I went to the class and then they showed me how to use a ruler and perspective and all this stuff and it totally made me not want to do it at all.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Class
  • Worried
  • Love To Draw

• Man, I hated school. I'd stare at the buttons on the teacher's shirt the whole class.

  

  John Prine
  • School
  • Teacher
  • Class