John Prine Quotes
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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The history of business has shown that companies usually only regulate themselves if they're forced to by legislation, or out of self-interest - often in the shape of a marketable message that will help sell more products.
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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I like to do Pilates.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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What you see is what you get.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.
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Executives are waking up to realize that they can do a lot better, save money, make better decisions if they optimize and start thinking geographically and have a location strategy.
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This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.
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Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
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We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
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Sometimes you can get stuck doing the same kind of thing over and over again, and then there's a certain moment in your life when you say, 'Wait, there's all this other stuff in me and all this other life.'
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I want to ski as long as I can.
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Take responsibility about what you have on your TV, and about what you are out there supporting.
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Fingir é conhecer-se.
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Prentice: What this young woman claims is a tissue of lies.Match: This is a boy, sir. Not a girl. If you're baffled by the difference it might be as well to approach both with caution.
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When I was a boy, my family used to watch a lot of Laurel and Hardy.
