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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I don't want everybody to just see the baseball side of me.
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
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Just knowing you're putting something out there that could take on a greater life - that's our sweet spot. That's what we try to do.
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I'm a simple hillbilly. I don't like eating modern, industrialized, fast food. I grew up eating home-cooked food. So when I'm traveling abroad, like when I recently received a six-month writing fellowship to Iowa in the U.S., I like to cook my own food.
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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.
