Glen Campbell Quotes
What I try to do is live with myself and please me. If I can't do that, I can't please anybody else or live with anybody else.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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I was an English major in college!
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
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I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.
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I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.
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Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved.
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We are a motivated team, and there is nothing that can stop us from winning the title. Even if I had lost, my teammates would have made up for it.
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'Never confuse sitting on your side with being on your side.'
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I warm up. I do about 50 push-ups with my trainer and my security just to get pumped up before a show, get our energy up. And then I just go have fun.
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Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.
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There are opportunities that I have because I'm a white dude, and it's controversial because that's just the way that the world we live in kind of is.
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The third day, I knew it was over. But I tried to make it last for three months.
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What I try to do is live with myself and please me. If I can't do that, I can't please anybody else or live with anybody else.
