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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people."
"Somehow, the painting soothed him. It verified his fears. But it also informed him that fear was wonderful."
"But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo."
"I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person."
"I think it was always there and it was maybe a matter of bringing it out. It was harder than I thought it would be and I had to try harder. I had to regain my confidence, maybe the most important thing. I have learned a lot to relax. I know what I can do now, and I do it."
"Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships."
"As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation."
"Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser, of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse."
"Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis."
"And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer."
"I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation."
"Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status."
"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."
"It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go."
"Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers."
"If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret."
"Claire was struggling through last summer's diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon's head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher."
"Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it."
"There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life."
"For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do."
"I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse."
"There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta."
"My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian."
"I wore that same shirt yesterday playing golf. There goes the Nike account."
"A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called."
"I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed."
"But since day one, we've always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it's not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn't know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was... in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it's always been."
"You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely."
"You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining."
"The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple."
"If I had a rocket launcher, some son of a bitch would die."
"The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis."
"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."
"I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian."
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