John Mellencamp Quotes
I think it's ridiculous to try to sell records to teenagers, because teenagers don't buy my records. And there ain't that many teenagers out there in the marketplace.
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Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.
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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
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A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.
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Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans' willingness to show up.
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The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
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Beauty is whatever gives joy.
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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
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The stream in my hometown Calgary is the oil and gas industry - that's the talk you hear on the street.
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And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time warp, because I can use as many of the old songs as I want to, just the favorites.
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When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.
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I think we have still to get to a place where we feel satisfied. We have this saying - 'In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king'. We are a little bit that way.
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Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.
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It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive.
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Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.
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I think it's ridiculous to try to sell records to teenagers, because teenagers don't buy my records. And there ain't that many teenagers out there in the marketplace.
