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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror."
"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance."
"Anything that was perverse and silly would be Kids in the Hall."
"We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand."
"I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart, and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously."
"Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears."
"That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain."
"I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way."
"I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once."
"Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids."
"I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else."
"You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it."
"Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic."
"There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit."
"It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required."
"I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling."
"Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name."
"The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become."
"I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running."
"The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition."
"Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older."
"If two wrongs don't make a right, try three."
"In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't."
"Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting."
"I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance."
"As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks."
"Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits."
"Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations."
"Thanksgiving creates abundance."
"Where did the stereotypical image of the reclusive author in a bathrobe and slippers, indulging in vices and spending hours before a typewriter, even come from? I don't know about you, but most writers don't have the luxury of doing any of this. Otherwise we'd have no life experience and nothing to write about, anyway."
"Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision."
"Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly."
"My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball."
"I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes."
"Do not, for one more minute, spend your precious time and energy on or surround yourself with people who are less than you deserve."
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