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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents."
"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."
"The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."
"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."
"I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive."
"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 really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent."
"We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us."
"Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren't satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other."
"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."
"Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can."
"I wore that same shirt yesterday playing golf. There goes the Nike account."
"I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian."
"Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity."
"And what if you could go back in time and take all those hours of sorrow and insanity and replace them with something better?"
"I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then."
"You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely."
"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."
"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."
"There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate."
"If I had a rocket launcher, some son of a bitch would die."
"The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story."
"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."
"Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations."
"I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope."
"We're losing society to apathy, to digital technology, the people who care about nobody else but themselves. They share every little detail of their stupid lives online as if the world even gives a damn— digital technology is getting smarter and society is getting dumber," Mandy whispered in a voice filled with disbelief. "Society is— it's slipping away."
"Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches."
"I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?"
"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us."
"To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher."
"One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with."
"I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don't think I've ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit."
"There are thousands of girls out there who could be doing my job."
"I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book."
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