John Prine Quotes

I don't like to see Christmas trees torn down.

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• Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Real
  • Kind
  • Internet

• I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?

  

  Ian St. John
  • People
  • House
  • Dance

• For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Write

• Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Business
  • Small

• I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

  

  Abu Abbas
  • War
  • Feel
  • Mistakes

• It's no secret that I wear a kippa.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Secret
  • Wear

• Before I got married, I dated the gamut.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Married
  • Before
  • Got

• When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • You
  • Road
  • Take

• The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.

  

  Orson Welles
  • You
  • Stage
  • Two

• I went to high school in Stockton, CA.

  

  Cameron Dokey
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• Quare non ut intellegere possit sed ne omnino possit non intellegere curandum.

  

  Quintilian

• I would walk into my office, and I would close the door, and I would say, 'I won't cry, I won't cry, I won't cry'... At least, I wasn't going to let them see me cry.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Door

• All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.

  

  Dieter Rams
  • Ugly
  • Chaos

• A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Career
  • House
  • Value

• When your lips get dry, is there anything more frantic?

  

  Emily Weiss

• One of the powers of a sit-in is its visibility and potential to mobilize public opinion; the way the protest is reported in the media can have a powerful influence over its eventual success or failure.

  

  Parker Conrad
  • Success
  • Powerful
  • Opinion

• Dead at 50. Mike Webster! Nine-time Pro Bowler. Hall of Famer. 'Iron Mike,' legendary Steelers center for fifteen seasons.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • Time

• Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Experience
  • Action
  • Moral

• It's a tougher gig than what people think it is. The proper, real, genuine, worldwide movie stars don't get a lot of downtime from the world outside. That's a tougher price, I think, than what people's fantasy of fame account for.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Growing

• I don't like to see Christmas trees torn down.

  

  John Prine
  • Christmas
  • Trees