"I've never fit in in any music world. I've always been an outsider. I mean, the fact that I live in Indiana - I live in a fly-over state. I'm not running away from anything, that's the problem. Most people go to cities because they don't like where they come from."

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Source : Source: www.slate.com

John Mellencamp

#Running Quotes #Mean Quotes #Cities Quotes

“President [Barack] Obama - he was unsuccessful in his efforts to raise the federal minimum wage, but he still used the Labor Department in other ways to try to boost paychecks for American workers.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Get some money, buy a red coffeepot, move out. Find a new place to plug it in.”
“I have always believed that hair is a very sure index of character.”

Source : Katharine Tynan (1913). “Twenty-five Years: Reminiscences”
“You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.”

Source : Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.69, D & M Publishers
“You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.”

Source : David Markson (1988). “Wittgenstein's Mistress”
“Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.”

Source : Will Tuttle (2007). “The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony”, p.35, Lantern Books
“Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.”
“Your dog is your only philosopher.”

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