John Mellencamp Quotes

This cycle of make a record, tour has been going on for 20 years now. I don't even know why I do it sometimes. Do I need more money? Do I need more platinum and gold records? The only thing I can think of is ego.

John Mellencamp

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MoneyGoldEgoThinkI CanKnow

One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.

Matt Dillon

ChangeThinkingYouOutBreakBeing

I made a sort-of living in the beginning of my acting career as a reporter. I think my very first job was 'Early Edition' as reporter no. 1, and for 'Light It Up,' I was reporter no. 2.

Amy Landecker

LightJobBeginningThinkActingUp

I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.

Amy Grant

SingingAmericaYearsStageUpBig

I have always been uncomfortable with a series of movies. I hate that word 'franchise' - it always makes me think of French fries. What I felt each time was that we were going for broke, that this was going to be the last in the series. You can't count on anything.

Sigourney Weaver

TimeHateMeThinkUncomfortable

In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people.

Shirley Manson

PeopleUncomfortableYouKnowUp

I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.

Josh Homme

PeopleThinkExampleGetIdea

Grief is exhausting. When you learn - maybe through my age or experience - trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it's really necessary and can arrive.

Ciaran Hinds

AgeGriefExperienceYourselfEnergy

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

Anne Tyler

PetAmazingThinkCowBackEarth

Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.

Annie Besant

GoodKarmaBadBackWheelOut

Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.

Susie Orbach

PeopleFatBodyHealthyOthersOwn

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.

Rem Koolhaas

GreatProblemWorthBuildShape

I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything.

Renny Harlin

AdvertisingOutAnythingIf I Could

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