Glen Campbell Quotes
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You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.
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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
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I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.
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I got the famous Oprah hug!
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I always trained hard in my life to win the title, and I will train twice as hard to stay at the top.
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Revolutionaries are not infallible.
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I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man.
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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
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Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.
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If you want a database, you don't go out and say you're going to write it. I see platforms as going in that direction.
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In general, I don't like L.A. all that much, but it has wonderful parts.
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I'm not a big fan of anniversaries.
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I'm not a chef. I haven't created any new technique in the kitchen. I'm not a rocket scientist. I think I'm good at writing accessible, fun, and affordable meals for the average American family. That's what I think I'm good at.
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Crudely effective, but wildly inefficient.
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I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed.
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Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.
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Pandering to the scandal hungry public is a total lack of responsible journalism.
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Ideal government would be a very boring job - it would be a matter of organizing a lot of utilities and keeping the wires together and the power plant and all that kind of stuff. It's not a matter of telling people how to live, it's a matter of making it pleasant for them to live. Government should be in the position of distributing food, stuff like that.
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Sometimes my feelings get so big that I just want to swim out into the darkness. Just jump off the end of the world. Sometimes I want to dig, right down to the bones of everything. Sometimes when you dig, you dig up stuff you might not want to find. But that’s where the good stuff lies.
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I saw my first indoor bathroom when I was 9.
