John Mellencamp Quotes

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

John Mellencamp

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• At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Heart
  • Redemption

• My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Door
  • Fight
  • Once

• Most importantly, you have to stay true to yourself as well as those fans who made you who you are as an athlete.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • True
  • Yourself
  • Athlete

• Grease and starch just always win over protein. In food as in so many things. Look around you, that's what our whole country is based on. It's amazing that Michael Jordan can be an iconic figure because he's basically just protein.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Country
  • Food
  • Amazing

• We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Children
  • Relationships

• The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.

  

  Earl Browder
  • Conflict
  • System
  • Continue

• I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Believe
  • Attention
  • Audience

• Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Country
  • Free
  • Way

• I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Body
  • Perishable

• There were times when I thought I would never own a car.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Car
  • Thought
  • Own

• I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Singer

• I was told it might be quite difficult to conceive, so it really was a great blessing when my pregnancy suddenly happened. I had been diagnosed years ago with polycystic ovarian syndrome, which can affect your fertility - but luckily, in my case, it didn't.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Great
  • Difficult
  • Blessing

• He was tall and very dark-skinned and he had fabulously blond hair and a voice that could raise bumps on your skin at a hundred meters, or, better still, millimeters.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Dark
  • Hair

• There is one thing that ought to be taught in all the colleges,Which is that people ought to be taught not to go around always making apologies.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People

• Yeah, sue me.

  

  Eminem
  • Yeah
  • Sue Me

• I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

  

  Antonin Artaud
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Suicide

• I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Up
  • Childhood

• The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Law
  • Question
  • Progress

• The class of big capitalists, who, in all civilized countries, are already in almost exclusive possession of all the means of subsistance and of the instruments (machines, factories) and materials necessary for the production of the means of subsistence. This is the bourgeois class, or the bourgeoisie.

  

  Friedrich Engels

• I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Writing
  • Book

• Have you ever stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai? I'd warmly recommend it. It's super luxurious, and right next door, there's a classic slum. So you can do a quick slum tour and get back to your sanctuary without any inconvenience but with some excellent snaps.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Door

• When I'm writing a new play, there's a period where I know I shouldn't be out in public much. I imagine most people who create go through something like this. You willfully loosen some of the inner straps that hold your core together.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • People
  • Writing
  • Together

• At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Chance
  • Knows
  • Diversity

• What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

  

  John Mellencamp