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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When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.
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I've always been a fan of movies well before I got involved in the industry. The magic that it brings and being able to, I guess, escape your troubles, escape whatever is going on in life and getting to live in this moment and in the story and live in the lives of these characters.
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I remember when I was 5 or 6 years old, gospel music felt familiar, like I had heard it in the womb or something. A lot of those old gospel songs still give me that feeling, that it's older than time and there's actually music that can tap into a universal subconscious, or whatever word you want to put on it.
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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.
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I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.
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Don't the hours grow shorter as the days go by?
