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 like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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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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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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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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A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.
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There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important. If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.
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Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.
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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.
