John Mellencamp Quotes
I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
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I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.
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There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.
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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
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But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart... I am a big teddy bear.
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People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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I had to have shoulder reconstruction.
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Nothing is going to change the fact that I believe Ronald Reagan is the greatest president in my lifetime - may well be the greatest president this nation ever had.
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I really don't think we've become a plutocracy, but I worry about the enormous influence that money has in a democracy such as ours.
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You remember what you go through as a kid, what's going to make you listen, what's going to make you respond. I held onto that. People who treated me like that when I was younger got every bit of respect and attention I could give them, because I knew that they were coming at me from almost an equal level.
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I was probably 14 or 15 when I was first on stage at school doing 'Measure for Measure.' I immediately felt it was a great way of expressing oneself at a moment when I didn't think I could express myself, really. I suddenly had access to this range of emotions and thoughts and feelings that were there in me. I was surprised by that.
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I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.
