Barry McGuire Quotes
I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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I studied Morse code.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.
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I became a dancer late and an actor late.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
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I know politics; I know the media.
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I used to live on Riverside Park in New York, on the Upper West Side.
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I tell folks when I walk into a room, when I leave, you may not like me - you may not agree with me - but by golly, you will not misunderstand where I am. I get things done.
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I was always the tallest girl in my class, and it made me have really bad posture because I wanted to seem shorter than I really was. It really reflected how I felt about myself. I spent most of my youth in school feeling really insecure about the way I looked because I was different.
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My dad is Jean-Paul Bourelly, a really prestige guitar player in Europe, and he toured with Miles Davis. I was always surrounded by the most prestige kind of musicians from Senegal, Trinidad, Poland, Nigeria, and all around the world.
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What really troubles me is that democracy is getting a bad name because it is identified with imposition and occupation. I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.
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I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.
