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Glen Campbell Quotes

I can think of only two or three songs out of hundreds I've recorded that I performed as originally written. I like to become intimate with the material and change it to suit me.

Glen Campbell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 22, 1936 - August 8, 2017

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Change Me Think I Can Three Become

When suddenly everybody is guessing, or some even getting close, to the ballpark of what you're earning - well, that's interesting, that everyone knows what you make.

Jim Parsons

Interesting You Everyone Earning

I've gone through a whole series of careers where something started as a hobby of some kind. Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.

John Knoll

Hobby Kind Everything Gone Something

There is so much more vegetable use in Thailand, India and China than meat. Yes, when you go to the markets or buy street food, you see shrimp or chicken - but mostly vegetables.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Food You India Vegetables Go Street

What you say and do in a crisis matters.

Ami Bera

You Crisis Say Matters

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.

Stephen Leacock

Way Own British Laughing Except

In Belgium, we know the U.S. culture through the television, but it's not the truth. It's interesting to see that Philadelphia is really industrial. I love industrial cities. Everybody hates them, but I think they're the best places to be creative. The more gritty it is, the more I love it.

Stromae

Love Truth Best Culture Creative

I've had a nice career. I'm no David Bowie or Bruce Springsteen out there. I'm not an icon. I'm just a working artist.

Rodney Crowell

Artist Career Nice Out David Bowie

You do stand-up because you have to do it. If you're doing it to become 'famous,' you're wrong. If you're doing it to become a millionaire, you're doing it for the wrong reasons. In 2003, I was flat broke. I'd been doing stand-up for 14 years at that point. I loved it and just kept at it.

Russell Peters

Loved Famous Doing You Wrong Become

In 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed, we anticipated that Europe was going to have a very different bailout scheme than the U.S. because of their different political systems and different relationships between the central banks and the fiscal authorities.

Lou Jiwei

Political Relationships Europe Going

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.

Jonathan Miller

Survive Interesting Literature Out

For a while there, our writing got really edgy... I've always written about experiences, so when your life gets a bit crazy, you start to write songs that are a bit edgy.

Dolores O'Riordan

Life Crazy Writing Start You Edgy

If I had let myself off the hook in college, I could have enjoyed myself a lot more. Knowing that I can't have those years back, I have learned to get the most out of living in the now.

Chris Pine

Myself College Back Living Knowing