John Prine Quotes

As far as guitar picking, if I make the same mistakes at the same time every day, people will start calling it a style.

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• Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

  

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• Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.

  

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• Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

  

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• I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.

  

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• No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.

  

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• Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

  

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• I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.

  

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• When Captain America is in a room full of Marvel superheroes, he is always Top Dog, even though his powers are pretty modest. He could be stood next to Thor, Iron Man, whoever. He is the one that everyone looks up to. To me, that is Superman, too. Even de-powered in the Legion arc, he was still Superman. Still Top Dog.

  

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• Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

  

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• How we get power, how cars are powered, when the technology and resources to have something that is infinitely better, we still use old-school technology. We're still using that same exact structure.

  

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• Recently, a friend sent me the online musings of a televangelist who advised his thousands of followers that the Federal Reserve achieved satanic ends by manipulating the world's money supply. Paranoia has replaced piety.

  

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• There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.

  

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• Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

  

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• I am forever learning and changing.

  

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• That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.

  

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• The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.

  

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• Oh, If I should die tonightOh baby, though it be far before my timeI won't die blue, sugar yeah'Cause I've known you.

  

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• I had always been fascinated by the bizarre world of cards. It was a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments were meted out immediately.

  

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• My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.

  

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• I would never bring a kid to a comedy show myself, but I have noticed that I can't stop other people from bringing their kids.

  

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• I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had a very clear vision of its own standing, of its own morality. It was not an ambiguous time. Today, we live in a world that is highly ambiguous, very fractured, with many of the historical, traditional values in a state of collapse, really.

  

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• Television is a lot more fast-paced, where with films, you really have the ability to get to know your characters. When I was doing guest star roles, I was only one, like, one episode of a thirty minute to an hour show, so you don't really have time to get to know my characters.

  

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• As far as guitar picking, if I make the same mistakes at the same time every day, people will start calling it a style.

  

  John Prine
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