John Mellencamp Quotes
I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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I don't get bothered by fans.
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My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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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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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.
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Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.
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I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'
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You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can't remember any of them. They're all positive now. Even the bad times were good.
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Long-term trauma for women who have survived armed conflict is a haunting reminder that health issues and depression can follow decades after the end of war, but women who hope for healing can and do move forward.
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It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from - if you put quality work out there, it will be appreciated.
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I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?
