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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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.
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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.
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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.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until I was going to be a star.
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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 the house, so I learned my vocabulary from song lyrics - I was literally singing before I was talking.
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You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But then what happens when you've been married for 25 years? You can't rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more.
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You can tell black artists are front and centre when Usher discovers and launches Justin Bieber.
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When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop stuff off. The faster you go, the more chances you take. And the more chances you take, the greater the war between cyclists and cars.
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With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.
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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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Designers shouldn't aim to control, but to enable.
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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.
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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.