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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer."
"I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire."
"It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go."
"I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation."
"No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly."
"This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives."
"I wore that same shirt yesterday playing golf. There goes the Nike account."
"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."
"My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill."
"There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta."
"There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life."
"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."
"I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law."
"Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations."
"I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then."
"We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever."
"As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation."
"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."
"The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."
"There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications."
"Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada."
"Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that."
"I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book."
"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'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it."
"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
"I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am."
"How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways."
"About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load."
"It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live."
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