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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching."
"It is always the village women who drive these things."
"The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before."
"Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch."
"I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad."
"The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues."
"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."
"As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world."
"Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain."
"I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water."
"My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher."
"The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control."
"I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'"
"Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today."
"Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist."
"Why hoard away so many back-issues of People Magazine? Fashion magazines are just empty promises. You can go bankrupt blowing all your cash on expensive beauty products, but the only way you'll ever look just like the people on those glossy front covers is if you know how to use computer editing software for photographs. Besides, people who think they are ugly, are never really all that ugly anyway. People who think they are pretty, are rarely ever all that pretty."
"I would hate to see operations in the Congo held hostage to Sierra Leone but I really think that's the way it's got to be. At one point we've got to decide to get it right and we've got to be professional."
"The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist."
"I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform."
"Bite me, Goth princess, Shane called from the back. "Not literally or anything."Maybe you should say that to Michael."Not funny, Eve, Michael said.Eve raised her eyebrows and held her fingers up, measuring off about an inch. "Little bit, she said."
"What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling."
"What his uncle does not understand is that in walking backwards, his back to the world, his back to God, he is not grieving. He is objecting. Because when everything cherished by you in life has been taken away, what else is there to do but object?"
"You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar."
"Shane was sitting on the curb next to the old, cracked gas pumps, eating a candy bar. Claire plopped down next to him. "Half? she asked."And now I know you're my girlfriend, since you're not afraid to demand community property, he said, and pulled off the uneaten half to hand it over."
"Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound."
"The mind is a neural computer."
"Now we come to forgiveness. Don't worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important things. For instance: keep the others safe, if they are safe. Don't let them suffer too much. If they have to die, let it be fast. You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves."
"Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade."
"Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good."
"We both have a great loyalty to it, and I think that it's important to give it our best shot."
"Punctuality is the soul of business."
"This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics."
"As a writer, one is busy with archaeology."
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