Bruce Cockburn Quotes
I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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The actresses I've known support each other very much. If you have a level of confidence in what you're doing, then you don't feel threatened. We all have different things to offer.
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When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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If you get conquered by ego, then you are losing the fight.
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Ten years after Dayton, that these two primary architects of these appalling crimes should still be free is a failure on all sides.
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We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.
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I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.
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I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.
