John Mellencamp Quotes
I've been around so many people for so long that I take great delight in my own company.
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I will keep working hard!
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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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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Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.
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I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my living. So maybe I should try to do television and film and make a better living and get an occasional residual check so I can pay a mortgage someday.
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'Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.
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I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.
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My idea of religion is we are supposed to bring people together. We are not supposed to judge other people.
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It seems with every match I win, I get better-looking to other people.
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I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.
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Long experience, in the United States and in other advanced economies, has demonstrated that monetary policy is most successful when decisions are rendered independent of influence by elected officials.
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My dad could hold a tune. He wasn't necessarily a singer, but he did love music, and he listened to it quite loud in the car.
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I've been around so many people for so long that I take great delight in my own company.
