Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes
Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
Quotes to Explore
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I like 'Ab Fab;' I love the crazy stuff they wear. That's my favourite! I love 'Ab Fab.'
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.
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Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.
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Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
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I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest part is... get on the beam and stay there on top of it!
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I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
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Alas, this industrialized twelve-tone horse, dull on the outside and empty inside, constantly being perfected and dragged to a new Troy in shadow of an ideological war long since fought and won by responsible minds like Schoenberg, with neither systems nor scholarship for armor!
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I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster.
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Covenants without swords are but words.
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And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.
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In all well-conducted concerns the law of 'selection of the fittest' sooner or later comes into happy action, when a loyal and attached set of men work together harmoniously for their own advantage as well as for that of their employers.
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Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
