John Mellencamp Quotes
I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.
Quotes to Explore
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I'm a proud family man.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
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The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.
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I drive a Nissan Versa and would never spend real money on a car because I destroy things.
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What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.
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A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world.
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I have been playing tennis for a very long time. Tennis is my life. I see my life in other places, and there are other challenges for me.
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I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.
