Barry McGuire Quotes
My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute.
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I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.
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I've always tried to lend my support to worth while causes, and I feel you should use your celebrity to help with worldwide causes and help them gain exposure.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation.
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When a man sits in our jails for a number of years, and around him friends and family become angry, that is how we create terrorists.
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I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.
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When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.
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People still take it really personally. They come up to me at breakfast places like, 'When are you growing your hair back?'
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My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute.
