John Mellencamp Quotes
I want my paintings to look like they were found in a garage. If they get a scratch or a hole in them, it just becomes part of the painting.John Mellencamp
Quotes to Explore
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
Sam Reed -
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
T. S. Eliot -
I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.
J. August Richards -
Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
Nancy Allen -
You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
Salman Rushdie
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
Tanith Lee -
Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
Sam Wyly -
And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
Oliver North -
Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
Hailey Gates -
If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we've thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone.
E. L. Doctorow
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
Gabriel Basso -
A true champion can adapt to anything.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
We've seen the power of the PC, and we've seen that it's unstoppable.
Eckhard Pfeiffer -
I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.
Daniel Barenboim -
I feel that for the story of 'Romeo and Juliet' to be impactful, it has to be believable, and there has to be a certain level of chemistry between the two characters.
Hailee Steinfeld -
Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitcoin you get $100. And so it doesn't matter what the price does the next minute or the next hour.
Barry Silbert
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'They would say,' he answered, 'that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.'
C. S. Lewis -
The Special Ops community has always been about mental toughness.
Brandon Webb -
I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.
Michel Platini -
When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.
Damian Loeb -
You have got to be able to picture side by side everything Matisse and I were doing at that time. No one has ever looked at Matisse's painting more carefully than I; and no one has looked at mine more carefully than he.
Pablo Picasso -
I want my paintings to look like they were found in a garage. If they get a scratch or a hole in them, it just becomes part of the painting.
John Mellencamp