Bruce Cockburn Quotes
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Well, for one, I don't judge my characters.
Taraji P. Henson
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I do feel bad when my films don't do well, but I respect audiences' verdict because they know well which films to support. If they don't like a film, we should accept it.
Hansika Motwani
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By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
Karen Abbott
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I know I don't mind sharing my defects, my deficiencies, partly in the hope that someone will hear it and know that they're not alone.
Karan Johar
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I think there's a very clear recognition and understanding that the progress of women in business at the very highest decision-making levels is too slow. This is a discussion that's going on in every country around the world, actually.
Quentin Bryce
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There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.
Patrick Wilson
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Up to a certain time I was cutting into things. Then I realized that the thing I was cutting was the cut. Rather than cut into the material, I now use the material as the cut in space.
Carl Andre
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From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to a minimum if it cannot be eliminated altogether, say, by automation. From the point of view of the workman, it is a 'disutility'; to work is to make a sacrifice of one's leisure and comfort, and wages are a kind of compensation for the sacrifice.
E. F. Schumacher
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A light on Marmion’s visage spread,And fired his glazing eye:With dying hand, above his head,He shook the fragment of his blade,And shouted 'Victory!-Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on!'Were the last words of Marmion.
Walter Scott
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'Technology is dangerous.''How do you mean?''It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.'
Jack McDevitt
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Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.
Livy
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I'm incredibly proud of 'Life On Mars' and 'Doctor Who.' They're just a blast to do.
John Simm
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I didn't come out until 5 or 6 o'clock in the evening. Sleep all day, sleep and cook and eat, stay in the house. That sun is hot, anyway. It ain't right out there.
David Edwards
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For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. The former when shifted are the latter, and again the latter when shifted are the former."
Heraclitus
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My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.
M.I.A.
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Any company faces big challenges during transformation. People are accustomed to going ahead on the existing track. Even when they know there are problems, the first reaction is to protect the old way.
Li Ning
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The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.
Bruce Cockburn
