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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The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
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Dangerous is a people's voice charged with wrath.
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I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
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The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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I have lived with extraordinary women, whether it was my grandmother, my mother. My father passed away when I was 16... I was witness to a woman who single handedly brought up the entire family and managed to do everything... She was an extraordinary role model for me.
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Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.
