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Dan Hill Quotes

Canadian - Musician | June 3, 1954 -

Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.

Music Face Will Always Controversial

Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.

Music Dawn Generation Next Shocked

I didn't have that thing that Michael Bolton did; my star power - my charisma - was not a match to my writing ability.

Power Writing Ability Star Charisma

You succeed and accomplish and accomplish; the problem is when you stop, you become depressed because you could never do enough.

Succeed Problem Enough You Stop

I think my father had a certain degree of insecurity and need to achieve.

Father Insecurity Think Achieve Need

My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.

Children Loved Three Four He Female

In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was born in June 1954. My parents, thrilled, showered me with love.

Love Parents Me Mom Born Living

Blessed with Mom and Dad's remarkable genes, raised on big words and big, iconoclastic attitudes, Larry and I, before entering kindergarten, knew who we were, what we wanted, and how we would get there.

Words Mom Blessed Kindergarten Big

To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that of carnival circuses.

Business Best Boxing Sometimes Hype

Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.

Day Poverty Rise One Day Top Star

Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.

You Mean Solar Head Nose Left

Woody Allen movies notwithstanding, therapy, in the early eighties, was not exactly a hot conversation starter. Nor was it a favoured activity for dysfunctional couples or suffering individuals.

Suffering Conversation Early Movies

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