John Mellencamp Quotes
When I wrote 'Pink Houses,' nobody was talking about that, right? The next thing I know, you can't see the TV without hearing commercials with 'Listen to the heartbeat of America,' or 'Born the American way.' That whole America thing now - I hate it.
Quotes to Explore
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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With Donald J. Trump's arrival to power, many feel astonished by the growth of populism. Others analyze with extreme care the decline of companies that measure public opinion. I am saddened to watch the lack of temperament and political stability of those who 'represent' a trend or ideology.
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I don't see myself ever selling Republic or AutoNation.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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I fix the human chassis, I tune up human engines, I recharge human batteries, and I adjust human transmissions.
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I consider protecting all students, including LGBTQ students, not only a key priority for the Department, but for every school in America.
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
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We are not hated for who we are. We are hated for what we do. It is not our principles that have spawned pandemic hatred of America in the Islamic world. It is our policies.
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I don't believe in luck.
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When I wrote 'Pink Houses,' nobody was talking about that, right? The next thing I know, you can't see the TV without hearing commercials with 'Listen to the heartbeat of America,' or 'Born the American way.' That whole America thing now - I hate it.
