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Gordon Lightfoot Quotes

Every time you wanted to do something, you'd hope it would score. You'd keep trying and trying, and all of the sudden, something would come right out of left field, like 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.' No one had any idea about that one.

Gordon Lightfoot

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: canadian
Birth: November 17, 1938

Topics

Hope Time Trying You Right Out

Although a novel takes place in the larger world, there's always some drive in it that is entirely personal - even if you don't know it while you're doing it.

Joan Didion

World Drive Doing You Place Know

Empathy is the bridge to understand those who you may be lucky to one day lead, and it is - in my opinion - the most under-appreciated human skill in business.

Andy Dunn

Business Day Empathy Bridge Opinion

Justin Smith was one of the most underrated players in the NFL for what he did. He would sacrifice and do the dirty work, then someone else would clean up off it.

John Madden

Work Sacrifice Someone Dirty Clean

Chairman Chaffetz was an enthusiastic supporter of the 'USA Freedom Act,' designed to rein in the allegedly renegade NSA and its wanton depredations of American privacy.

Michael Hayden

Freedom American Privacy Act NSA

While the rest of the country is still talking about welfare reform, Texas is implementing it.

John Sharp

Rest Texas Talking Country Welfare

If we're going to have standards in schools, let's be honest and have standards.

Amy Klobuchar

Standards Honest Going Schools

Whether it's a movie I'm in or not, if there's a good movie, and it's low budget, and you know everyone's done it just because they were passionate about it and they cared for it, if it has any kind of audience, it's just a wonderful outcome.

Toni Collette

Good Budget You Just Because Know

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Robert Cormier

Life Alone Teen Adolescence Always

My brands are an extension of me. They're close to me. It's not like running GM, where there's no emotional attachment.

Jay-Z

Me Emotional Where Close Like GM

We speak continually of saving time, but time in its richness is most often lost to us when we are busy without relief.

David Whyte

Time Speak Busy Lost Without Us

I would not hesitate to say I was addicted to the Internet in the first two years. It can be addictive, and things not taken in moderation have negative effects. But the alarmism around 'Facebook is changing our brains' strikes me as a kind of historical trick. Because we now know from brain science that everything changes our brains.

Clay Shirky

Science Me Brain Negative Internet

I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

Arthur Ashe

Love I Am People Face Want Way