Glen Campbell Quotes
Our dad taught us not to be a loafer and a slough-off, that you don't blame somebody else for your misfortunes.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.
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I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.
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I don't do negative things.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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I'm going to continue to work to be the best player in the world, and whenever that doesn't sound fun to me anymore, that's when it's over.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
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Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
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I have the great good fortune that one of my collaborators in work, Anne Case, is also my collaborator in life.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
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We live in crazy times - that is true - and things have gotten crazier, but it still doesn't feel like the turn of the century.
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After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed. I have always had to have an outlet for my creativity and when my life became more about raising my family than the bright lights of show business exploring my photo art was a great outlet for me.
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My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland, and my great aunt was a woman called Greer Garson.
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Our dad taught us not to be a loafer and a slough-off, that you don't blame somebody else for your misfortunes.
