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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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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'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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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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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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Glass really rewards risk. A lot of times with glass, you're just waiting for the piece to cool down or for some temperature to adjust, and there's split seconds where you've got a fraction of a second where you get to make a move a particular way, and you don't get to repeat it if you do it wrong.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.
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My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'
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My dad always said there's four phases in an actor/director's life. There's 'Mario Who?' There's 'Get me Mario!' 'Get me a young Mario,' and 'Mario Who?'
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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.
