John Mellencamp Quotes
I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.
John Mellencamp
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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.
Sam Shepard
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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.
Vanilla Ice
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
Fatima Sana Shaikh
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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.
Hal Sparks
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
Vijay Mallya
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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.
Kaia Gerber
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Everything and anything is valuable.
Wadada Leo Smith
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
Eddie Izzard
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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.
Ian Watson
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
Vanessa Redgrave
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?
Tamora Pierce
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Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.
Norma Deloris Egstrom
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I really want to bring ensemble playing back to the forefront - not just for me, but for everyone in jazz. When you have a group, a true co-op group, you can really heighten the possibilities of all the treasures of jazz.
Aaron Diehl
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Were't the last drop in the well,As I gasp'd upon the brink,Ere my fainting spirit fell'T is to thee that I would drink.
Lord Byron
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When you give, you receive.
Alek Wek
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I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.
John Mellencamp
