Dan Hill
Dan Hill
Daniel Grafton "Dan" Hill IVis a Canadian pop singer and songwriter. He had two major international hits with his songs "Sometimes When We Touch" and "Can't We Try", a duet with Vonda Shepard, as well as a number of other charting singles in Canada and the United States...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth3 June 1954
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
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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 a lie.
men world example
There are certain men born in this world, and they're supposed to die setting an example for the rest of the weak bastards we're surrounded with.
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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 I die, 'til we both break down and cry, I want to hold you till this fear in me subsides.
designer aim
Designers shouldn't aim to control, but to enable.
jobs school people
In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there is not patience for the long. Slow rebuilding process: implementing after school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas
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The critical thing addressed here today is that there are a good number of people who do not have a family connection to hunting or the outdoors. It takes a caring older person to introduce a young person to the outdoor life. That is the beauty of the mentoring concept. It can be a hard thing to see the beauty and the joy of the outdoor experience all on your own, at least initially. Much more has been accomplished here today that preaching to the choir.
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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
lyrics
When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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While I've won five Junos, I've donated four of them to the National Archives in Ottawa. Which left my fifth Juno sitting, seemingly abandoned by its four family members, on my bookcase in my dining room.
inspires last myriad rather reactions triggers
I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.
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Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists.
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He did really well today. Get used to that name, he'll be doing some great things.
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I got the big BMW X5, and I didn't like it. It was just too big, and I didn't feel comfortable driving it. It was taking up too much room, and I was afraid I was going to smash into something.
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If we can help people see that it's not just a race, that it's an opportunity to build life-long friendships, conquer challenges together and strengthen communities, then we think we will have succeeded.