John Prine Quotes
You get to thinking that because you've written 50 or 100 songs, you think maybe you know how to do it. But when they're not coming along, you're just as in the dark as you ever were. When they're coming along, there's nothing to it. Sometimes it's so easy, it's like you're a court stenographer.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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I made a clean version of 'Enter the Ninja' that my mom can listen to.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.
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I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.
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I like to play board games a lot with my girl, things like that. We attempt to cook. And even if it goes wrong, it doesn't matter because it's the time you spend doing it that's important.
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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
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Our fifth premise is that the resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.
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The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes careTo grant, before we can conclude the prayer:Preventing angels met it half the way,And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want.
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I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous.
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To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many.
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I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.
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You get to thinking that because you've written 50 or 100 songs, you think maybe you know how to do it. But when they're not coming along, you're just as in the dark as you ever were. When they're coming along, there's nothing to it. Sometimes it's so easy, it's like you're a court stenographer.
