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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Well, it's always nice to know the fans didn't forget what you did when you played in the NHL."
"We are all born like Catholics . . . in limbo, without religion."
"All this will happen because people have neglected the basic lessons of Science, they have gone in for politics and religion and wars instead, and sought out passionate excuses for killing one another. Science on the other hand is dispassionate and without bias, it is the only universal language. The language is numbers. When at last we are up to our ears in death and garbage, we will look to Science to clean up our mess."
"If you give up, you reward failure."
"So the laughs had to come from the character, not because we had balloons in our shirts or were speaking in high voices. That was very important to us."
"I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it."
"I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy."
"Not lovelier. But a different kind of loveliness. There are so many kinds of loveliness."
"I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am."
"It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak."
"My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men."
"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."
"Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day."
"The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself."
"Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses."
"I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war."
"I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli."
"As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more."
"Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs."
"People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success."
"If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well."
"Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it."
"I've been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I've won some awards and I'm very proud of those accomplishments. But I don't think there's anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle."
"It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos."
"The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation."
"I mean, the way I see it is, every penny I've ever made through music is free money."
"Mandy loved the smell of a sunny day after a night of rain. The sun hit the orange puddles, the overgrown, soft, green grass on her lawn, and it beamed down through the orange steel mill smog, sending otherworldly, bizarre shadows across the concrete sidewalk."
"I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be."
"I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have."
"SCREW CHILDREN! That's the mantra of the world. Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging them if they don't comply, hitting them, yelling at them, indoctrinating them with religion and statism and patriotism and military worship, what if we just did what was right for them? The whole world is built on "screw children", and if we changed that, this would be an alien planet to us."
"Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express."
"Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad."
"The mill cannot grind with the water that is past."
"The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena."
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