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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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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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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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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As soon as I could talk, I was bellowing at the top of my lungs. My parents couldn't get over how weird I sounded – like an old man when I was just a toddler! But no one was gonna shut me up.
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It's just that, when I'm in Japan I could foretell to a certain degree what would be accepted, so I certainly don't come up with any crazy arrangements.
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Oh Portugal, today you are fog... The Hour has come!
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Know who you are, because that's how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep further down the road.
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No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
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I don't have a number, I just want to catch them all. That's always my goal is to maximize every opportunity and every throw that's coming my way.
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I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh.
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Social Security should have a self-sustaining portion that was funded by contributions from both employers and employees. That's what we know and have known for 70 successful years.
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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.
