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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On a mild day in January 2011, Republicans in the House voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act. It was the first of more than 80 attempts to dismantle the landmark law.
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It's very important to be as transparent, as real as possible, as a person.
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Weisinger, a couple of years ago, made up the following story: 'Isaac Asimov was asked how Superman could fly faster than the speed of light, which was supposed to be an absolute limit. To this Asimov replied, 'That the speed of light is a limit is a theory; that Superman can travel faster than light is a fact.''
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Nine Inch Nails was born out of Cleveland, Ohio, with me and a friend in a studio working on demos at night. Got a record deal with a small, little label, went on tour in a van, and a couple years later found that somehow we touched a nerve, and that first record resonated with a bunch of people.
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When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.
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After a couple bouts with cancer and everything, black cats are nothin', you know?
