Brock Chisholm Quotes
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend it working on my music. If I'm not playing drums with my cover band, Chevy Metal, I'm working on songs for myself.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.
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Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.
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Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.
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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
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I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.
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This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.
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Cuvier had even in his address & manner the character of a superior Man, much general power & eloquence in conversation & great variety of information on scientific as well as popular subjects. I should say of him that he is the most distinguished man of talents I have ever known on the continent: but I doubt if He be entitled to the appellation of a Man of Genius.
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I'm happy in Lululemon, with a glass of red wine, watching HGTV.
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The camera and I have always had good chemistry.
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My mother made a choice. And when I was younger, I judged her for making that choice. Then I got older and got to be an adult, and I realized that was the ultimate sacrifice that any parent and any mother could possibly make.
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Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.
