Glen Campbell Quotes
Great stories start with great opening lines. 'I'm a lineman for the county' - what a great way to start a song.
Quotes to Explore
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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
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I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.
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Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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I don't think I'm a good dancer.
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I'm gluten intolerant, so that automatically cuts carbs from my diet.
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The trade of insurance gives great security to the fortunes of private people, and by dividing among a great many that loss which would ruin an individual, makes it fall light and easy upon the whole society.
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A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging.
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You know, I find people with great honesty, bodily, physical honesty, who sit just the way they like to sit, and walk the way they like to walk, and don't come into a room all pumped up, I find them elegant.
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I understand it's great to read a great book, but it's better to live your life. It just helps me. It's uncomfortable at times, but you have to live outside the circle.
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Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.
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Great stories start with great opening lines. 'I'm a lineman for the county' - what a great way to start a song.
