Bruce Cockburn Quotes
It's a phobia I have. I never assume I'm going to be able to write another album after I finish one.

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On election night 2000, I had never met then-Governor Bush, though I'd supported him for years. I believed he would be a strong, optimistic and gracious president with solid conservative principles and a big heart.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.
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I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.
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People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
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My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
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The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge.
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I would definitely love to continue acting, and I also really enjoy school, so I would like to balance the two somehow.
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The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.
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I don't like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain style, because we need to maintain an identity, maybe between some subculture group. Hopefully, all those walls break down, and music is just music.
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When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or female. Also, I was a great admirer of E.B. White, so I may have thought that it would bring me luck to submit my first manuscript as 'E.L.' But if I were starting out today, I would use my first name.
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If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.
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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
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I believe it is in the world's interest to develop environments that fully engage women and leverage their natural talents.
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I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It's like being someone else.
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Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.
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Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.
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At a certain point, you have to take the rearview mirrors off the bus and focus forward, and that's what we've sought to do.
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Divorce has become so easy nowadays that women have stopped crying at weddings.
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I Ran, So Far Away. I just tell them that I hated that song on that day. But I love the old songs.
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Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth.
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It's a phobia I have. I never assume I'm going to be able to write another album after I finish one.