Glen Campbell Quotes
I needed a capo - a clamp to hold down the strings - so my daddy made me one out of a corn on the cob and a rubber band.
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I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.
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I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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I'm looking forward to losing the long locks at some point. But it's been fun, and I do enjoy it.
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I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.
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If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
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I was born with an evil face.
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I feel like we can't pick who we fall in love with because if we could, we would all make better choices. Your heart just falls where it falls.
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In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
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Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
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I think men look best when they're dressed in something that makes them feel comfortable.
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What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!
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After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
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You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
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Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.
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I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians.
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We never really write 'love' love songs. There's always something twisted about them. But as far as love songs, women just became way more important to us after we turned 21, as a band in general. Kind of broke up our boyhood solidarity as we started branching out into babes.
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When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.
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Make no mistake, the point of cutting the personal income tax and the capital gains cut is to send an unmistakable message to business.
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I needed a capo - a clamp to hold down the strings - so my daddy made me one out of a corn on the cob and a rubber band.
