Gordon Lightfoot Quotes
And the body of a dead youthLies stretched upon the groundUpon the filthy pavementsNo reason can be foundBlack day in July
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It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.
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Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
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I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.
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Researchers have been looking for biomarkers of age for a long time and have failed. People sell tests out there to measure your biological age, and none of them work. There's no evidence that you can measure biological age with any reliability.
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Everyone needs something they're good at. You want your kids to be passionate and figure out something they're good at.
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In high school, the fastest I ever ran was like a 4.67; that's pretty fast. But then, I only weighed 168 pounds.
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The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.
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Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.
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You can't force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the confrontation of regular rock concerts: us up here, you down there. Instead, we're looking for interaction.
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Oil wells never really run dry. A big company will drain maybe 40% of a field. Pulling out the rest of the oil, which requires an outlay of incrementally more cash per barrel, often proves uneconomical for big companies with big overheads.
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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.
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Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.
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You really want a company full of missionaries, not mercenaries.
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I have a passion for animals and spend a lot of my spare time working with various organizations here in Toronto.
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Our first and immutable commitment must be to the security of Israel, our only true ally in the Middle East and the only democracy,
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You ain't got the answers Sway!
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The mysterious monument of Stonehenge, standing remote on a bare and boundless heath, as much unconnected with the events of past ages as it is with the uses of the present, carries you back beyond all historical records into the obscurity of a totally unknown period.
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I'm German but I didn't say that. I have no moustache.
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And the body of a dead youthLies stretched upon the groundUpon the filthy pavementsNo reason can be foundBlack day in July
