John Mellencamp Quotes

One quality of a good songwriter is to be vague. A vague notion, a vague image, but enough to give the listener the opportunity to make more out of what's being said than is there. That's the great thing about Bob Dylan's songs: We the listeners have made more out of them than he ever intended.

John Mellencamp

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When you're doing a network show in the States, you're just a slave to the ratings. There's so much money invested that there's this pervasive atmosphere of fear and anxiety. Every morning after an episode of your show airs, everyone is fixated on the numbers to try and determine how the show did.

Jeffrey Klarik

FearMorningMoneyAnxietyDoing

Good sci-fi and fantasy use fantastical situations to represent real-life issues. It really is all a metaphor for what we all go through as humans.

Stella Maeve

GoodGoFantasyThroughMetaphor

Bill Clinton worked with a Republican Congress. They certainly had their differences on many issues, but look at what they also accomplished. Welfare reform - that was maybe the most significant social policy achievement in two generations.

Tom Cotton

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Once illness strikes, you realize there's not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do. And there's no time like the present.

Rufus Wainwright

TimePresentYouRealizeNeedLike

Fear is not a motivating factor. You might be able to get a little bit more out of someone in the short term, but you will completely erode your business and your culture in the long term. You're going to lose all your good people. You're not going to have people tell you the truth, and it becomes the tradition.

Mindy Grossman

GoodFearBusinessTruthCulture

If you were a Colombian, you would have your version of an empanada. If you are an Argentinean, you might find a dough that's baked and has a butter sheen on it. And then in Ecuador, you'll find more crispy-fried empanadas. So, yeah, every culture has their own version of empanadas.

Jose Garces

CultureYouFindMoreOwnDough

People don't go to bars they think are uncool.

Jon Taffer

PeopleThinkGoBars

A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works.

Jonathan Galassi

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I'm hungry. I'm ready to grow.

Post Malone

GrowReadyHungry

There's something else that makes a woman interesting, something beyond being young or being old. And I'm going to find out what that something else is before I die, I hope.

Peter Lindbergh

HopeWomanInterestingDieFindOut

I am good at persuading people. In convincing the other, I try to start from their point of view so it's easier for me to find a common denominator.

Tzipi Livni

GoodI AmPeopleMeStartView

I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink.

Timothy West

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