Bruce Cockburn Quotes
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We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
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Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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President Trump is right to welcome China's help in bringing North Korea's illicit nuclear program to heal, but he's also correct that if China doesn't go along, the U.S. can act alone.
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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I've gone for long stretches without working. I remember many times peeking into my checkbook to see if any money was left.
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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
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I never think about any of my accomplishments and I always get butterflies in my stomach and I never get too comfortable with the status.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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I make no vows. I take my chance. … It means that I fear certainty as you fear uncertainty. It means that nothing is certain but uncertainty. If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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Childhood is precious... Hardest part of growing up? Is growing up, I think.
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If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate.
