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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In the 1920s the young English physicist Paul Dirac began trying to understand and describe the space-time evolution of the electron, the first elementary particle discovered by J.J. Thomson in 1897. Dirac was puzzled by an unprecedented property of space-time, discovered by Lorentz in his studies of electromagnetic forces, whereby if space was real, time had to be imaginary, and vice versa. In other words, space and time had to be a ‘complex’ mixture of two quantities, one real and the other imaginary.
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One changed child eventually changes a family. A changed family will influence change in its church. Enough changed churches will transform a community. Changed communities change regions. Changed regions will in time change an entire nation.
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Right now I'm 185, which is really good for me yet very hard for me to maintain. My weight seems high for the average woman, but I've got big bones and I'm maintaining muscle.
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Well that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again!
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I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a bit different. I really felt I didn't fit in. My dad was from the Caribbean, my mum was English, we lived in quite a white area but we were quite poor, but also quite brainy, and I was a really, really skinny child so I felt a bit awkward about all these things.
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I saw my first indoor bathroom when I was 9.
