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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so."
"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?"
"Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin."
"I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless."
"You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar."
"My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?"
"Let's say that it belong to me as much as it belongs to anyone alive today. If I am, strictly speaking, living. The old word was undead, you know, but aren't all living things undead. I dislike imprecision."
"Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two."
"Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants."
"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."
"Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long."
"There are days when I can hardly make it out of bed. I find it an effort to speak. I measure progress in steps, the next one and the next one, as far as the bathroom. These steps are major accomplishments. I focus on taking the cap off the toothpaste, getting the brush up to my mouth. I have difficulty lifting my arm to do even that. I feel I am without worth, that nothing I can do is of any value, least of all to myself."
"Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit."
"Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture."
"Shane looked faintly injured. "I make it my business to know everything about silver. And I saw your notes. I study up on everything when it comes to your boss, anyway. There was a flicker of jealousy about that, but she didn't have time, or energy, to consider it very much. Not even whether or not she liked it."
"The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously, it did not seem so to Freud, who wrote that as a boy he once had an erotic reaction to watching his mother dressing. But Freud had a wet-nurse, and may not have experienced the early intimacy that would have tipped off his perceptual system that Mrs. Freud was his mother. The Westermarck theory has out-Freuded Freud."
"The mind is a neural computer."
"It can't really happen today the way it did back then and part of that is because I think there's a bit of a competitive scare over at Marvel and DC so they lock guys up with exclusive contracts."
"I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ..."
"I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985."
"The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving."
"However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once."
"The crowd gives us so much energy and we are able to really feed off of it. Hitting those shots and having the crowd go crazy helps boost our confidence. We love our fans."
"I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting."
"Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement."
"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?"
"Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries."
"If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling."
"I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means."
"You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot."
"I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water."
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