Glen Campbell Quotes
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Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
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Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'
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Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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I can't think of any shows I've watched about teenagers that has the same spirit that 'Skins' has, the same honesty about it.
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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.
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I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.
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The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.
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I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.
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One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.
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All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.
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Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
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People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.
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One of my favorite cartoon characters is Snoopy. I love the way he sits and lies on his kennel and contemplates the great things of life.
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
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If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
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Stephen King's 'Mr. Mercedes' is not a conventional horror novel. No ghosts, no vampires, no prune-faced escapees of the graveyard.
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Memories just get richer with time.
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Honesty I can take. Lies I get upset about.
