John Mellencamp Quotes
I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
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A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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I'm not the biggest horror fan. I get scared so easily. If I'm just walking on set, and someone taps me on the shoulder, I scream and jump and freak out.
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To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.
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I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
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How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
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Even when I was winning my fights, once it's over, it's over. It's in the past, and you've got to look forward.
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If more people follow their superpowers - and everyone has one - then we're going to be better as a society.
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The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).
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I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.
