John Prine Quotes

People keep inventing all these new machines, and producers and recording engineers keep wanting to use them.

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• I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Song
  • Never
  • Pressure

• The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Social
  • Court
  • Supreme Court

• I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Death
  • Scared
  • Ninja

• Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Why

• You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Reality
  • You
  • Find

• I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.

  

  Vince Cable
  • People
  • Trying
  • Daily

• My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Time
  • Important
  • Live

• Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • Only
  • Saints
  • Acceptable

• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Food
  • Control
  • Living

• I did not come to NASA to make history.

  

  Sally Ride
  • History
  • Did
  • NASA

• You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • You

• Writers aren't in competition with one another. It isn't a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Good
  • Book
  • Game

• Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Different
  • Band
  • New York

• It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • She
  • Hope
  • Death

• Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

  

  Mae West
  • Black
  • Space
  • Personality

• If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • World
  • Good
  • Good Person

• Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Job
  • True
  • Friend

• Young people want you to be real with them.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Real
  • Want

• Arizona - I've only spent a few days there, but it's inspired me the most. It's so peaceful.

  

  Benjamin Clementine
  • Inspired

• I think that the equator could act as a great equalizer for all life on Earth, celebrated as the great energy belt of the planet. If all our energy grids were synchronized, the light side of the planet could provide energy for the dark side, according to the movement of the sun.

  

  Antony Gormley
  • Life
  • Great
  • Earth

• I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition.

  

  Eve Arnold
  • World
  • Serious
  • Helping

• Fundamentalists are crazy. They're the real world equivalent to the evil geniuses of our spy fiction and our superhero comics. They want to mold the world into a specific shape that they really believe in, and if you don't believe in that, if you can't relate to that, it just seems crazy.

  

  Christopher McCulloch
  • World
  • Believe
  • Real

• I would love to do a drama. I did a couple of episodes of The Good Wife, which is more of a drama. I really liked that; I thought it was interesting. A lot of my favorite comedies play out as dramas.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Good
  • Interesting
  • Wife

• People keep inventing all these new machines, and producers and recording engineers keep wanting to use them.

  

  John Prine
  • People
  • Producers
  • Machines