Bruce Cockburn Quotes
'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it was a powerful experience.
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I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
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Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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I'd like to say that I'm a rock star, but I'm not - I'm honestly more of a relationship kind of guy. I'm a guy you could take home to meet your mum rather than a guy your mum wouldn't like.
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Intellectually, I am already an old man. But in the sensory area, I am still such a child! I shuffle on my bottom between the two.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.
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The idea of Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula, all I could think of was, why haven't they done this with him before? It's such a genius idea. 'Dracula' has always been done as film, so it's been an hour and 40 minutes. What we're done is 10 hours of 'Dracula,' so you have a lot of freedom with all the different mythologies and nuances.
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I'd like to work on having every fourth year become a year in which no laws are made, but the old laws are reviewed, updated, or deleted as needed. That way we won't get endless, obsolete laws piling up on the books.
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Your heavenly home was bought for a price, and that payment results in a title deed that can never be lost through foreclosure.
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The greatest threat to the war on terrorism isn't the Islamic insurgency - our military can handle the savages. It's traitorous liberals trying to lose the war at home.
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I entered Harvard in 1965 not really knowing what I wanted to do. This confusion seems to have lost me a fellowship. G. D. Searle and Company, the pharmaceutical firm, had their home office in Skokie, and they gave a fellowship each year to a graduate from my high school that was going to major in science in college.
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'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it was a powerful experience.
