Bruce Cockburn Quotes

All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am.

Bruce Cockburn

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I AmThoughtDoingLongI CanGoing

I love the sassy skinnies; that's what I usually wear.

Jenna Ushkowitz

LoveSassyWearI Love

I worked on 'Happy-Go-Lucky' for seven-and-a-half months, and I'm in it for two minutes - largely because Sally Hawkins turned left instead of right.

Andrea Riseborough

RightTwoLeftBecauseMinutes

Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.

Michael Ignatieff

AdmireBecauseLeadersOurSome

Our friend, Timothy J. Russert, was a man who awoke every morning as if he had just won the lottery the day before. He was determined to take full advantage of his good fortune that he couldn't quite believe and share it with everyone around him.

Tom Brokaw

GoodFriendMorningDayManBelieve

I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot more to things than we see.

Rodney Mullen

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The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.

Roy Hattersley

WelcomeSocietyFreeStopPrinciples

My days, if they start in the morning with a cuddle from my son, are just so much more glorious than they were prior to that.

Russell Crowe

MorningSonStartMoreDaysJust

For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black's tweets.

Michael Showalter

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IBM has research and development; so do Microsoft and Nike and even Jose Andres. But there hasn't been enough R&D on feeding people in the Third World. This has to be part of the process; if not, we'll keep throwing money at the problem instead of investing in true solutions.

Jose Andres

MoneyPeopleResearchWorldProblem

I think our Founding Fathers, they would disagree, but they weren't disagreeable. They didn't hate each other; they didn't want to kill each other off.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

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I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.

Johnny Rivers

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I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my relationship with it. I would make completely different choices, do things I wouldn't have normally, because I had to fill this narrative shape.

Chelsea Cain

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