John Mellencamp Quotes

When I wrote 'Pink Houses,' nobody was talking about that, right? The next thing I know, you can't see the TV without hearing commercials with 'Listen to the heartbeat of America,' or 'Born the American way.' That whole America thing now - I hate it.

John Mellencamp

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The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is.

Jock Sturges

WorldMediaMoreSeeInsignificant

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.

John Bacon

StrengthFaithDeathMindFindWill

You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.

Jennifer Aniston

JobBlameSomeoneNot KnowingYou

Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of the fact that one life is not enough to improve just one single note of what has already been written and performed.

Andrea Bocelli

LifeLoveMusicTimeEnoughStudy

You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.

John Lydon

Wake UpYouWrongBedAlwaysSide

What I look for in theater, I really like new work, and I really like the concept of age not necessarily being a defining aspect of who you are or how you act.

Maura Tierney

WorkAgeYouLookNewAct

The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.

Anish Kapoor

EyeQuickEarInstrumentThanMuch

Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.

Michael Frayn

DestinationReachEverythingDiscover

I'm lucky that I have such a hands on husband.

Tori Spelling

HusbandHandsLucky

Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.

Tom Landry

PositiveCharacterHopeManEndSee

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mary McCarthy

LifeMomentProcessHouseLabor

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

Mignon McLaughlin

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