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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it."
"About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments."
"Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters."
"I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling."
"It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose."
"We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore."
"It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has."
"L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who."
"Any chance you have to sit back and be the one watching is great."
"All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond."
"I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing."
"The country has been of better character since leaving the Buttes than E. of them, but has now a very fertile appearance. This may be said to begin about the 3rd crossing of Milk R of the line."
"Anytime you play a finalist it's going to be a challenge."
"I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption."
"The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical."
"That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find."
"The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general."
"Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights."
"The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike."
"Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be."
"I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change."
"Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years."
"All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of."
"I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength."
"I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of film since way back, what we accept or what we can get away with on the screen is broader now."
"We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise."
"Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites."
"There was tremendous emotion. Every shift was so emotional."
"The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation."
"Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities."
"The achievements we forge in this place and in our nation will not be those of one person or one party."
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