John Mellencamp Quotes
Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared.
Quotes to Explore
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
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What's wrong with the world and what can we do to change it?
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When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed; I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.
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I have always believed in magic. I used to run into the woods as a little kid looking for witches. But I'm not superstitious, because I m not afraid of it. I see it as something really beautiful, and I wouldn't want to live in a world without magic.
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It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn’t held it tighter when you had it every day.
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Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared.
