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 doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as 'learning.' But I was disappointed in how quickly everyone wanted to get back to normal. It was as if we watched terrorism on TV for a while, then got bored and turned back to 'American Idol.'
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When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
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The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form, to devise effective ways of organizing and using the material. For content and form are interrelated. The problems presented by content and form must be so developed that the result is fundimentally [sic] true to the realities of life as we know it. The chief problem is to find a form that adequately represents the reality.
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'You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing.'No, sir.'One or the other. Not both.'Precisely, sir.'
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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
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I saw my first indoor bathroom when I was 9.
