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Dan Hill has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Sometimes when we touch..The honesty's too much, and I have to close my eyes and hide. I want to hold you till…
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There are certain men born in this world, and they're supposed to die setting an example for the rest of the weak…
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You ask me if I love you and I choke on my reply. I'd rather hurt you honestly than mislead you with…
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Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible…
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
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You succeed and accomplish and accomplish; the problem is when you stop, you become depressed because you could never do enough.
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I think my father had a certain degree of insecurity and need to achieve.
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My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
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In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was born in June 1954.…
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To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at…
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All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out…
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Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.
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When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in…
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