John Mellencamp Quotes
You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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I don't think you should limit what you read.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.
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Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.
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I think that a band that cannot limit themselves to one genre and can kind of do a lot of different things.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
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One of the big weaknesses of the Conservative Party is not just their ignorance of and lack of effective response to the cost-of-living crisis but a more fundamental error about what makes for success in the 21st century.
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$3,000 from a residual cheque was all I made one year.
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You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.
