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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble."
"I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them."
"In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
"The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll say thank you, but I appreciate it much more when the other one says 'you make me laugh so much'."
"Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands."
"Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive."
"Newspapers take peoples' tragedies and force the world to experience all of it."
"There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom."
"It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success."
"The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together."
"People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation."
"Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings."
"The core value that differentiates Apple is our ability to innovate."
"I had that flying wheel tattooed on my forehead and on my butt."
"Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment."
"Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie."
"I've never seen anything like it since. Some of the Canada Cups came close, but by then a lot of European players came and played in our league so we were more familiar with them."
"The scientists at the end of the 19th century had people coming to them with this weird behaviour, and they didn't know what was going on but there seemed to be a similarity. They needed an answer, so they made up one."
"Bishop was all done with the witty converstaion. 'Will you swear?'And Myrnin said, shockingly, 'I will.' And he proceeded to, a string of swearwords that made Claire blink. He ended with, '-frothy fool-born apple-john! Cheater of vandals and defiler of dead dogs!' and did another twirl and bow. He looked up with a red, red grin that was more like a leer. 'Is that what you meant, my lord?"
"It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues."
"As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception."
"There are many ways in which life's little candle can be snuffed out. A cold wind pursues us all."
"No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings."
"Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don't know why, and if we do find out why, it's decades later and knowing why doesn't matter any more."
"I think so, she [Claire] said. "Just watch your back, okay? "Nah, Michael's got mine. He [Shane] looked straight into her eyes."I've got yours."
"Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives."
"The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth."
"Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously."
"When people encounter the free market and they recoil or react negatively to it, they're merely confessing that voluntaryism, trade and negotiation are foreign and threatening to them, which tells you everything about how tragically they were raised."
"You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being."
"To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth."
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