John Mellencamp Quotes
If you hide information from people, don't want people to see the Ten Commandments or don't want people to hear about Darwin, aren't we hiding things that we know from our future generations? I just think that that's incorrect.
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I'm easily entertained.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
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I'm not a sun person.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.
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I thought if I looked back and evaluated my life, it would help me in the future.
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Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.
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For 'Frost/Nixon,' I had eight people who were present at those interviews - they were all in the room - and when I interviewed each of them, they had a totally different narrative of events, to the degree where you thought, 'Were you all really in the same room?'
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If you hide information from people, don't want people to see the Ten Commandments or don't want people to hear about Darwin, aren't we hiding things that we know from our future generations? I just think that that's incorrect.
