John Mellencamp Quotes
Regret should be handled swiftly, and you shouldn't hold onto it. People spend their entire lives regretting what they didn't do and what they should've done. Hey, man, you did what you did.
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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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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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I always make my favorite pancakes with milk, and I also add some fruit - like a banana or apple with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. I also sometimes put peanut butter on my pancakes!
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I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
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The retired L.A.P.D. motor cops who work set security now, all wear the same uniform, they're great guys with great stories, and they're great at their job, providing security on sets.
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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
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If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.
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There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
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I knew I was a good singer - I've been singing my whole life, so I was comfortable enough with that - I felt like I could compensate with not being great on guitar.
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I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
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People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.
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Anyone who knows music knows that Neil is about as real as it can get, and this along with seeing him perform 'Harvest Moon' on 'SNL' was my first experience knowing what real music really felt like.
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If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.
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Regret should be handled swiftly, and you shouldn't hold onto it. People spend their entire lives regretting what they didn't do and what they should've done. Hey, man, you did what you did.
