John Prine Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.
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I think it's time for people to stop being so serious about everything.
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I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.
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I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.
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I dream, therefore I exist.
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The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.
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I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else.
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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
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The child is the beauty of God present in the world, that greatest gift to a family
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Attitudes are the real figures of speech.
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Wherever you go, God be with you.
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Do not expect anything; there is more to be gained by earning it.
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The best part about using success as revenge means no 25 to life.
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People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning.
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A preoccupation with achievement is not only different from, but often detrimental to, a focus on learning. Thoughts and emotions while performing an action are more important in determining subsequent engagement than the actual outcome of that action.
