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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men."
"When I was a teenager, 'Playboy' was the most interesting magazine in the world, and not just for the playmates. I liked the interviews and the stories, and all that, but nowadays most of the stuff in there doesn't interest me."
"A month before the season, I don't order fries with my club sandwich."
"Influenza is a serious disease. Kids die of influenza, both in Japan and the United States, and if you give a drug to people who are at risk of dying, there will be people who die who got the drug,... There is no signal the drug is doing it as opposed to the disease."
"Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down."
"I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal."
"I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war."
"There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up."
"The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society."
"Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true."
"There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you."
"Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs."
"Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic."
"Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people."
"What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease."
"Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards."
"Everybody is excited to play so I think who plays with whom is a minor thing at this point."
"Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things."
"I've discovered that the less I say, the more rumors I start."
"If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly."
"I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so... that's about it."
"I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent."
"We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time."
"A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit."
"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."
"Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything."
"At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory."
"The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs."
"Usury once in control will wreck the nation."
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