Gordon Lightfoot Quotes
But now the seeds are planted and the gates are opened wideThe old ways are forgotten there is no place left to hideAnd the legacy I'm leaving you is not very hard to findYou'll see it all around you at this crossroads of timeIn the sweet soil its a growing at the crossroads of time
Quotes to Explore
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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A well begun is half ended.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.
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It bothers me to read the comments of leaders of the Hamas and others who hate America that their goal is to have more weaponry capable of delivering all types of weapons of mass destruction.
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The time is here for you to stand up for what you know is right. You must judge right from wrong. No longer can you be complacent or go with the flow or wonder what to do. You must decide now which path you will follow and which answer you will give. Decide well in advance, before the pressure is on, what you stand for.
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By the time I was 25 or 26, I would have earned a million, but if you looked in the bank account, it's not there because I've spent it. That's what it's there for. I don't want to be the richest bloke in the graveyard. Look at Elvis.
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It took me a long time to write again because Katrina destroyed the home I loved, and that robbed me of hope.
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But now the seeds are planted and the gates are opened wideThe old ways are forgotten there is no place left to hideAnd the legacy I'm leaving you is not very hard to findYou'll see it all around you at this crossroads of timeIn the sweet soil its a growing at the crossroads of time
