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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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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In a way it costs thousands dollars before you could actually go out to put the show on because you'll need equipments, all the lights you know, and that's more just going out and playing you know.
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The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.
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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.
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Everyone always says the middle child is the worst or whatever - what do they say? That everyone forgets about them? But that's not true. That's not true in my family.
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I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone.
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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.
