John Prine Quotes
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'
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Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.
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I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.
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A leader is a dealer in hope.
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The first thing I do in the morning is take my vitamins. I don't want to say which vitamins; I don't think you should push what you believe in. Doctors should do that, not fashion designers.
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My father is an anchor and my brother is as well.
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A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
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Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!
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The only sin is the sin of being born.
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There are a zillion variables to a hamburger. What part of the animal went into it. What coarseness. What temperature.
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Pro-lifers believe there are two victims in an abortion: the unborn child and the woman who felt that that was her best option.
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Secular culture, with the aid of psychoanalysis, has continued the old Christian habit of observing the self only to criticize it.
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I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I'm saying, and I track it.
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William Hartnell was one of the finest character actors of our time, and as a fan, I want to make sure that I do him justice.
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I tell people all the time - I'm a very spiritual person, so I pray over everything that I do including creating music, a new song.
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After a couple bouts with cancer and everything, black cats are nothin', you know?
