John Prine Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
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A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.
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The Internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It's fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don't care to hear it.
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I always liked No. 10 because I loved Zidane. He was my role model. I always wanted to play like him.
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My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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I think it shows when you have to work too hard on a song.
