John Prine Quotes

Yeah, early '71 is when I got my record contract. I had a record come out by August of '71. Things happened really fast.

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• Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • People
  • Life
  • America

• I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun.

  

  Ed Sheeran
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• My credentials, briefly: I no longer go to church or believe in God, but I can still name every one of the fruits of the Spirit and reeled for days upon hearing the announcement that Audio Adrenaline was reunited with one of the singers from DC Talk.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
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• I am no historian, but Hungary is a country which has never known democracy - and by that, I mean not a democratic political system, but an organic process which has mobilised the entire country's society. In the case of Hungary, this development was blocked by the growth of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century.

  

  Imre Kertesz
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• I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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• I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

  

  Abigail Breslin
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  • Kind
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• People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Myself
  • Walk

• Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into words must be done deliberately and with rigid artistry.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
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  • Words

• All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all.

  

  Ornette Coleman
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• But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

  

  Ira Glass
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• One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• There has been a failure to grasp how competing narratives fight for the attention of angry young Muslims, and we have grossly underestimated the appeal of the jihadist brand.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
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• It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.

  

  Barry Sheene
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• For me, I always like to get up bright and early.

  

  Andre Rieu
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• It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used, but they'll remember how you made them feel.

  

  Brian McDermott
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• I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to.

  

  Asia Argento
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• To say what or where we came from has nothing to do with what or where we came from. We do not come from there any more, but only from each word that proceeds out of the mouth of the unnamed. And yet sometimes it is our only way of pointing to who we are.

  

  W. S. Merwin
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• There were guys in wingtips that just didn't fly.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Fly
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  • Wing-Tips

• A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Teach
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• The boarded-up homes, the decaying storefronts, the aging church rolls, kids from unknown families who swaggered down the streets - loud congregations of teenage boys, teenage girls feeding potato chips to crying toddlers, the discarded wrappers tumbling down the block - all of it whispered painful truths.

  

  Barack Obama
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• MSNBC has abruptly ended their relationship with Keith Olbermann, and according to his contract he's not allowed back on television for at least six months. Or as industry experts call it, The Conan.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Relationship
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  • Keith Olbermann

• Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.

  

  Aretha Franklin
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• If you told people you were moving to Ohio, they wouldn't congratulate you. They'd say "OH WHY would you move there?" as if that was something that happened to you and you had to deal with.

  

  Celeste Ng
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• Yeah, early '71 is when I got my record contract. I had a record come out by August of '71. Things happened really fast.

  

  John Prine
  • Record
  • Happened
  • Contract