Bret Hart Quotes
People always think I left, and I was living in the States for a long time... But home has always been Calgary.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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I always gravitate towards the independent side of things, just because those are the stories I always fall in love with, but you don't really get paid, and living in Los Angeles is expensive, and I have a mortgage to pay. So it's good to jump onto a studio film and then in all my other time do small passion projects.
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We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
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I'm quite physical. I'm from one of those dog-walking families where hiking up a mountain is meant to be fun.
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This phrase, 'culture jamming,' was very much in vogue in the 1990s when these superbrands sort of emerged and started kind of projecting their names onto ever more surfaces.
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I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn't really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn't sleeping. My mum would tell me, 'You need to go outside to get some fresh air.'
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I've been so blessed to have the opportunities that I've had.
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I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.
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We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried desperately to get a meeting in the White House; Gay Men's Health Crisis is already an established organization. I have a certain presence.
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Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
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I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more.
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I can't tell you how many times I heard from younger sisters that their older sisters were bossy and judgmental.
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Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.
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That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have.
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People always think I left, and I was living in the States for a long time... But home has always been Calgary.
