John Mellencamp Quotes
I've been around so many people for so long that I take great delight in my own company.
Quotes to Explore
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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I will keep working hard!
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.
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I don't care how late it is, I will not go to sleep without washing my face.
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We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it.
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Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock go. Outcome is the result, regardless of the method used to achieve it. It is not controllable.
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Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
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Actors want to act. I think a lot of times what happens is that they're expected to bring it all. Probably because I'm a writer, I'm not telling them what to do. I just provide them with as much as I can.
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I've been around so many people for so long that I take great delight in my own company.
