John Mellencamp Quotes
If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to.John Mellencamp
Quotes to Explore
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
Immanuel Kant -
I love women more than anything.
Vin Diesel -
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
Pam Brown -
I am a self-critical perfectionist.
Victoria Pendleton -
Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.
Dan Farmer -
It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
Kate Millett -
No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.
Ma Jun -
My first job on the radio was writing jokes for a Baltimore DJ called Johnny Walker, who was sort of a '70s era shock jock who all the teenage boys listened to in my school.
Ira Glass -
You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
Nate Silver -
When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.
Aasif Mandvi -
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
Harold Coffin
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God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.
Florence Nightingale -
It is moral by his code to get into office by false pretences. It is moral to change convictions overnight. Anything is moral that furthers the main concern of his soul, which is to keep a place at the public trough.
H. L. Mencken -
But no one can eat the flesh of a slaughtered animal without having used the hand of a man as slaughterer. Suppose that we had to kill for ourselves the creatures whose bodies we would fain have upon our table, is there one woman in a hundred who would go to the slaughterhouse to slay the bullock, the calf, the sheep or the pig?
Annie Besant -
When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
Edward Abbey -
The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think - that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America.
Edward R. Murrow -
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.
Clare Boothe Luce
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Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?
Anna Funder -
It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.
Naomi Novik -
Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
John Locke Nazareth -
No woman in Afghanistan is in business without support from either her husband or her father or her uncle, someone.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon -
If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to.
John Mellencamp