Campbell McGrath Quotes
The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.
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The American dream is about freedom.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.
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Belief is thought at rest.
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We all know what it's like to go through growing pains and have awkward moments talking to someone you have a crush on.
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I pity Americans for their very bad fruits. Your 'mango' is cucumber. The only thing I really miss about Egypt is mangoes.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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Ronald Isley is a musical genius.
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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When I thought I was dying in rehab in 1994, 'I Won't back Down' was my mantra. It lifted my up out of the pain and made me fight through it. 'The Waiting'... summed up my life. We can't stand waiting, we rock 'n' roll men and women. Tom Petty's songs are like a great book that you revisit when you need help. His songs make me better.
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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
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You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
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See my baby dollShe's my beauty queenShe's my movie starBest I ever seenI ain't hooked it up yetBut I'm tryin' hard as I canIt's just a high maintenance womanDon't want no maintenance man.
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I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.
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The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.
