Bruce Cockburn Quotes
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.
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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
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It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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I've had a very good life and a very good career. I have no regrets.
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I grew up in Queens, and on Sunday evenings, my parents would drive my brother and me past the factory. We could smell the week's supply of bread baking. I always connected the 59th Street Bridge with that scent. Who woulda thunk, years later, I'd be there, directing and producing a hit TV show?
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Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.
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I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service to one another, and it is quite gratifying to know that if I am able to be of help to one that is not able to help themselves then I am fulfilling my obligation as a human being.
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I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been.
