"Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?"

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Source : Song: Sit Down Young Stranger

Gordon Lightfoot

#Philosophy Quotes #Finding Yourself Quotes #Wealth Quotes

“I think I approach all of my writing in the same way. I mean, it's my job, and I'm committed to it. I don't just float around and wait for some muse to call.”
“I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St. John's in Minnesota to my professors at Georgetown.”
“...we cannot stand idly by now, as the Nation is urged to embark on an ill-conceived adventure in government medicine, the end of which no one can see, and from which the patient is certain to be the ultimate sufferer.”
“I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.”
“To the eye of failure success is an accident.”
“Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.”
“Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.”
“I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.”

Source : "Tony Curtis dies aged 85" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2010.

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