Bruce Cockburn Quotes
A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.Bruce Cockburn
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
Mahalia Jackson -
Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
Famke Janssen -
With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
Daniel Bryan -
I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
Laura Dern -
I love anything to do with history.
Waris Ahluwalia
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
Hari Kondabolu -
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
Abraham Verghese -
My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
Vernon Wells -
I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
Gary Lineker -
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
Oliver Cromwell -
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
Edith Hamilton
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
Barbara Boxer -
I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!
Karen Salmansohn -
I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
Ed Stoppard -
To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
Earl Weaver -
The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
Walter Gropius -
Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
Dan Harmon
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I got a big mouth.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
J. G. Ballard -
I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time.
Gabriela Sabatini -
'Cause it's a good nightTo be out there soakin' up the moonlight.Stake out a little piece of shoreline.I've got the perfect place in mind.It's in the middle of nowhere; only way to get thereYou got to get a little mud on the tires.
Brad Paisley -
I've been very fortunate to be involved in all the Super Bowls, to see some World Series, to cover heavyweight championship fights; I've been to the Olympics and seen every sporting event there is.
Will McDonough -
A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
Bruce Cockburn