John Prine Quotes
If somebody tells me to work or exercise, I go the other way. I'll come up with an excuse.
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When I fell for Johnny Galecki, we both knew immediately that we had this connection, and that was it.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.
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If we're building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.
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Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.
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My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was 14.
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They are in a high key, somewhat like impressionism or a modified impressionism. I think I'm still an impressionist.
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Nearly 100,000 sex offenders remain unregistered, and are moving freely about the country; the risk that they may strike again grows every day.
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Predicting the market is always tough.
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It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.
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I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take your demo, you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica, and that's the Hollywood car test.
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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
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When you live and work in different time zones, you spend a lot of time on airplanes.
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An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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Anything I get to wear to the Met Ball is huge. I'm not a fashion girl, so it's cool to be dolled up and have those diamonds where they send armed guards with you.
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Studios are run by those who are way too old or mostly young, who don't think creatively.
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
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If somebody tells me to work or exercise, I go the other way. I'll come up with an excuse.
