Gordon Lightfoot Quotes
Some say he was a sailor who died away at seaSome say he was a prisoner who never was set freeLost upon the ocean he died there in the mistDreaming of a kissBitter Green they called her walking in the sunLoving everyone that she metBitter Green they called her waiting in the sunWaiting for someone to take her home
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.
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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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My record speaks for itself.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
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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 do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
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The economy is too weak right now. We need to jump-start it. The American Jobs Act will provide that jump-start, to help us into next year and the year after that.
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The best part of working with Facebook has been the cross-fertilization of ideas, people, and technology.
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... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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If you see 'The Shining' with Jack Nicholson, you remember him not only because he is Jack Nicholson and because he does a wonderful job, but because he is a threat. The bad guy is someone people will have in their minds forever if it's a good bad guy.
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Some say he was a sailor who died away at seaSome say he was a prisoner who never was set freeLost upon the ocean he died there in the mistDreaming of a kissBitter Green they called her walking in the sunLoving everyone that she metBitter Green they called her waiting in the sunWaiting for someone to take her home
