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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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
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As a general rule, governments are unlimited in their powers. All free governments, perhaps all other governments, are entitled in some shape or other to make laws and to repeal or amend them.
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When I think about Edmonton, Silver Street and Pymmes Park, the old people whose faces are so unhappy, it pushes me to be better. I want to be better to help places like this.
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Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.
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It's one thing to have a scouting report and not be able to execute it, and it's completely different if you're able to kind of work your way through that report, attack guys certain ways, use different sequences, and be effective with them.
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When we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus.
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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.
