Bruce Cockburn Quotes
There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.Bruce Cockburn
Quotes to Explore
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The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.
Xavier Becerra -
I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I've been listening to everything from Caribou to Conway Twitty. If I'm going on a longer car ride, I'll download some podcasts.
Sam Trammell -
I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are.
Parker Posey -
When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate.
Naoto Kan -
A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.
Malcolm Gladwell -
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Edmond de Goncourt
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde -
One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
Maimonides -
I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
Mallory Jansen -
I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.
Gale Anne Hurd -
Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.
Adam Davidson -
I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
Victoria Pendleton
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I've had hundreds of requests from journalists all over the world asking me to speak about Leicester, which is astonishing. It's captured the imagination.
Gary Lineker -
You get callbacks, and they either give it to what they call a 'name' performer, or they decide to go in an entirely different direction.
Tanya Fischer -
I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
Nancy Gibbs -
I just like to explore all sorts of different forms - no, 'explore' is not even the word - enjoy. You don't want to limit yourself to a particular form.
Yoko Ono -
The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.
Brown Campbell -
The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.
Sam Altman
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The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
W. Eugene Smith -
The use of drugs like mescaline may serve an appropriate purpose. Indeed, "Psychedelic" drugs have been widely used in the spiritual traditions of the world, including the Yoga of Patanjali, though they were never advertised as ultimate keys to enlightenment, merely as stepping-stones on the spiritual path.
Georg Feuerstein -
I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.
Bob Edwards -
I'm a spiritual musician, I think there has been enough political musicians and I think everything that can be said has been said about political, social things, you know, and there's still some more to be said but not much.
Ziggy Marley -
There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.
Bruce Cockburn