Gordon Lightfoot Quotes
Satin rays and coloured daysStark blue horizonsNaked limbs and wheat bins, hazy afternoonsVoicing, rejoicing the wine cups do bringPussywillows, cat-tails, soft winds and roses
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'
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I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
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I think there are definitely some people that would say I'm crazy.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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The American people deserve answers about Benghazi before we move forward with military involvement in Syria's civil war.
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The 2008 presidential election was a triumph of hope and unity over fear and divisiveness. Barack Obama's election reshapes America's political landscape and wipes away the false geography of 'red states' and 'blue states.'
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Stars are the daisies that begem The blue fields of the sky.
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I did a lot of commercials early on, and I remember the first commercial I ever got was for a product called Funyuns. I had to eat these chips for, like, 12 hours straight.
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It could have been done better and quicker.
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Satin rays and coloured daysStark blue horizonsNaked limbs and wheat bins, hazy afternoonsVoicing, rejoicing the wine cups do bringPussywillows, cat-tails, soft winds and roses
