Bruce Cockburn Quotes
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I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
J. Cole -
We welcome Chinese investment in the United States with open arms.
Gary Locke -
You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
Cam Gigandet -
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
Harmon Killebrew -
Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.
J. D. Hayworth -
If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
Namie Amuro
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
Earl Weaver -
I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
Mackenzie Davis -
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
Adam Clayton U2 -
Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.
Camille Paglia -
Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.
Flip Wilson -
I met Bill Clinton; he's a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton's cool.
Ed Sheeran
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I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding after having kids, like Mary King, but people say that you lose your nerve after you have kids. It's the risk.
Zara Phillips -
Shopping for hijabs has always been fun for me. I was so excited to begin wearing a headscarf. I had always looked up to my mother as she wore hers, and I was eager to emulate her beauty and the wonderful things she represented.
Halima Aden -
I wanted to show my maturity. The criticism I got made me grow up. It motivated me.
Pablo Sandoval -
Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.
Edmund White -
You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.
Ted Williams -
I would remake 'Club Paradise.' I thought the story was cool, the setting was great. Everything lined up, except I wrote it for Bill Murray and John Cleese.
Harold Ramis
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Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Samuel Johnson -
Escape from my self-berating, never-good-enough
Colleen Saidman -
My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.
Dorothy Hamill -
The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
Ada Louise Huxtable -
It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.
Thomas Sowell -
Don't the hours grow shorter as the days go by?
Bruce Cockburn