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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions."
"Despair is a free man-hope isa slave."
"Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee ... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now."
"You couldn't leave words lying around where our enemies might find them."
"I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final."
"I sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a candle. But if they were a code, who held the key to it? I was sand, I was snow-written on, rewritten, smoothed over."
"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."
"Now we come to forgiveness. Don't worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important things. For instance: keep the others safe, if they are safe. Don't let them suffer too much. If they have to die, let it be fast. You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves."
"People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far."
"I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience."
"When someone is honest and vulnerable, they wring my heart - I want to hug them for being real..."
"I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me."
"If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum."
"The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings."
"I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it."
"Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?"
"When I started out in Canada, I did a lot of voice-overs and commercials."
"I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am."
"I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up."
"When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war."
"I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them."
"If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious."
"As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did."
"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."
"A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away."
"I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress."
"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?"
"Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement."
"The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states."
"Dear motorist on the information superhighway. I'm sorry I do not have a car."
"It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway."
"There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers."
"I can analyse the trajectory of my popularity and find out why the peak was a peak and the valley was a valley - grapple with it that way - but I prefer not to analyse it that much."
"If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it."
"The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt."
"Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate."
"Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over."
"I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli."
"A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns."
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