John Prine Quotes
People thought we were crazy for starting a record company. They really thought I was shooting myself in the foot.
Quotes to Explore
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If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.
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The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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I think Twitter is best when it sparks conversations elsewhere. To use YouTube and Facebook and all the tools we have available to us today to respond and also promote and answer and engage is awesome.
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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
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Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them, either pillagers or deviants who came and brought back loot to Norway. It was an incredibly sophisticated, complex and layered culture. They had their own laws, many of which protected women.
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There are some great human beings out there. That's all I can say.
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Honestly I'm not a huge TV person. The only show that I've seen every episode of is 'Pretty Little Liars.' It's my favorite show. I wish I could get into other shows, but I just don't have time!
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I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.
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Hauer looks for laws. Good. But he looks for them where he will not find them.
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There is a very uneasy relationship between money and creativity, between money and almost everything. Its tendency to control and corrupt - whether it's in arts or education or politics, hardly anything is untouched by it. Journalism certainly is up there. Everything is susceptible to it.
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We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.
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There is no police brutality.
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I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.
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I have always had an extreme sensitivity to inequality.
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I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.
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As a survivor, you learn how to talk fast, cut deals, lie when you have to - perfect training to be a politician, you know?
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Predictability is the cousin of death: I don't necessarily want people to see me coming. You know?
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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines.
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People thought we were crazy for starting a record company. They really thought I was shooting myself in the foot.
