John Mellencamp Quotes
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We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
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If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
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I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
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'Farscape' is not what you call hard science fiction.
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James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a record with them, that he called me to do this record. I'd never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy.
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I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently.
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There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.
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What's the difference? One guy's the same as the other.
