Bruce Cockburn Quotes
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I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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We welcome Chinese investment in the United States with open arms.
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You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
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Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
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Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.
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Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.
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I met Bill Clinton; he's a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton's cool.
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I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding after having kids, like Mary King, but people say that you lose your nerve after you have kids. It's the risk.
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Shopping for hijabs has always been fun for me. I was so excited to begin wearing a headscarf. I had always looked up to my mother as she wore hers, and I was eager to emulate her beauty and the wonderful things she represented.
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I wanted to show my maturity. The criticism I got made me grow up. It motivated me.
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Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.
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You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.
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I'm excited to wear my country's jersey.
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Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.
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A lot of people have said, 'Why not take a smaller school head job?' I honestly feel my growth was better being in a large program, being around Coach Saban, and learning how to manage a lot of the tough situations you deal with in the media.
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I love conversation and the sharing of different thoughts and philosophies. That kind of stuff always makes me happy. I don't mind interviews, either - I like doing them.
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There's no doubt that on the issue of abortion, oftentimes it's very difficult to split the difference, although we can agree on the notion that none of us are pro-abortion and all of us would like to see a reduction in unwanted pregnancies, for example, and we could focus on those issues.
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Don't the hours grow shorter as the days go by?
