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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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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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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Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
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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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The only reason you even start a band is so you can hang out with your friends all the time, but somewhere along the line, it just ends up becoming a job. You were doing it because you were like, 'I never want to have to get a job,' then all of a sudden it becomes the biggest job you could ever imagine.
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I wish it was possible to do the work and not have to talk about it, but it is traditional in the theater to go into the village square and bang the drum and say, 'Come see this show, come see this show.'
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I started bowling when I was 14, my freshman year in high school.
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My son died from cancer. My granddaughter died from cancer. I have a lot of reasons to think that reality is not a friendly neighborhood. And the stories that I tell distract me, and if I do the job right, they distract people from things that are happening to them that they wish had never happened.
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After a couple bouts with cancer and everything, black cats are nothin', you know?
