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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Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.
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As exercise is necessary to the development of physical muscle, so development of the moral nature is accomplished through temptation. The soul being given choice, may exercise it in whatever direction it chooses, for it learns just as well by its mistakes as by right action in the first place, perhaps even better.
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
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It's seldom that you find great moments in television. Usually you remember - in 'Breaking Bad' or any of these other great shows - you remember situations or characters. Not moments. But I have to say, I can make the same argument for mainstream movies, which have bad narratives and also no memorable moments.
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Before the Berlin Wall came down, we played behind the Iron Curtain and sang, 'Born in the U.S.A.,' and I thought, 'We're all going to die. The man is going to get us all killed.' But then you saw all these kids with the American flag and German flags together and singing the song, and it was, wow, like 'We Shall Overcome.'
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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.
