Gordon Lightfoot Quotes
Hail hero, hail hero, let me see you smile You been gone for so damn long, I wish you'd stay awhile

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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.
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The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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I feel very keenly the eyes of the foreign media on our country. And I think a lot of Japanese people feel that things are not working the way they should. When the time comes, I will put myself forward.
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As a culture, we've all agreed with the opinion that the world should be seen in a certain way, so at 'The Nightly Show,' our chief mission was to disagree with that premise. And to see the world in a way that may not make everybody comfortable. And to present it with a cast of people who don't always get to have a voice on that.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.
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Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.
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When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
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Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
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Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
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Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them.
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The most dangerous fundamentalists aren't just waging war in Iraq; they're attacking evolution, blocking medical research and ignoring the environment.
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Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.
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I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.
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A Little Treasury of Modern Poetry is a standard Oscar Williams production... ...the book has the merit of containing a considerably larger selection of Oscar Williams’s poems than I have seen in any other anthology. There are nine of his poems - and five of Hardy’s. It takes a lot of courage to like your own poetry almost twice as well as Hardy’s.
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Hail hero, hail hero, let me see you smile You been gone for so damn long, I wish you'd stay awhile