Bruce Cockburn Quotes
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
Ralph Marston -
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
Daley Thompson -
I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
Dan Fogler -
I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
Carli Lloyd -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel
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I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of my life. When I can't, for instance if I'm in a location someplace and I can't work out because of the schedule of the picture or whatever it is, as much as I normally do when I'm home, I still do something.
Carl Weathers -
When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
Dalton McGuinty -
Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
Felicity Kendal -
Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
Eckhart Tolle -
As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
B. D. Wong -
We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
Gary Lineker
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
Ted Koppel -
Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
Victor Hugo -
I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.
Olivia Colman -
One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
Wendell Pierce -
There are pros and cons to everything but especially with what I have chosen. There are cons - the privacy level and everything that comes with it - but I feel there are a lot more pros. And I am doing what I love to do, so I am not complaining at all.
Taylor Lautner -
If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
T. Boone Pickens
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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
David Ogilvy -
I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.
Leslie Marmon Silko -
I'm having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to make me all beautiful again!
Patsy Cline -
I have this eerie feeling that by the time I'm 33, reality will not exist in the same plane as it did before. It's cool but also a little creepy.
Alan Palomo -
I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.
Graham Nash -
There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate.
Bruce Cockburn