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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There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.
Douglas Hurd
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The Patriot Act is ludicrous. Terrorists have proved that they are interested in total genocide, not subtle little hacks of the U.S. infrastructure, yet the government wants a blank search warrant to spy and snoop on everyone's communications.
Kevin Mitnick
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Whether you're talking about Chris Christie, or you're talking about Rick Perry or Scott Walker or John Kasich, there's more interesting evolution at the state level than there is in Washington.
Newt Gingrich
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All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
Carl Sandburg
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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
