John Mellencamp Quotes

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

John Mellencamp

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• With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Thinking
  • Question
  • Design

• I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Food
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Think
  • Know
  • Personality

• We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Beautiful
  • Day
  • Band

• I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Small
  • Child
  • Advice

• Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Life
  • Amazing

• Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Hand

• We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Language
  • Service
  • Tests

• When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • World
  • Find
  • New

• I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Rock

• How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • You
  • Band
  • Better

• For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Work
  • Family
  • Money

• I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Great
  • Me
  • Wind

• In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Future
  • Past
  • View

• What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Wind

• When somebody keeps telling you, 'This book is amazing,' you sort of have this pleasing instinct to say, 'Oh, let me make you happy again; let me do that trick again.'

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Happy
  • Amazing
  • Instinct

• I think there's a really mature side of me that can deal with problems - but when I'm with my friends, I get to act much more kidlike.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Friends
  • Think
  • Problems

• Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • World
  • Women
  • Violence

• When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Qualities

• More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that.

  

  Don Lemon
  • Country
  • Real
  • America

• My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • School
  • Fun
  • High

• I love that he's both comic and tragic, and highly poetic but also just dirty at times. ... I love that within the world of Shakespeare's plays, the whole world is sort of encompassed in a certain way.

  

  Lauren Groff
  • World
  • Dirty

• Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

  

  Martin Sheen
  • God
  • Faith
  • Church

• I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

  

  John Mellencamp
  • Dirty
  • Petty