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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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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I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film.
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As a fan, I want all of the Marvel TV projects to be successful. I am a comic book fan.
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I hope I will be remembered as a good father and a fair employer. And a good host, of course!
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My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.
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Hope gives us something to do when we are afraid of what might happen.
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I value multi-layered artwork that warrants a second glance, so I try my best to achieve that with my own work. If something is solely pretty or solely disgusting, you look at it once and get the gist and move on. If it's a mix of both, it's potentially more interesting.
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If somebody tells me to work or exercise, I go the other way. I'll come up with an excuse.
