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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success."
"There was tremendous emotion. Every shift was so emotional."
"Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption."
"My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India."
"The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins' record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these different artists to do renditions of his songs."
"A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know."
"Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?"
"The sad fact is there are no natural deaths, despite what doctors say. Every death is felt by someone as a murder, the unjust taking of a loved being. And even the luckiest of us will encounter at least one murder in our own lives: our own. It is our fate. We all live a murder mystery of which we are the victim."
"Hey. Shane's hip nudged her chair, and he bent over, putting his mouth very close to her ear."What are you doing?"Thinking."Stop."Stop thinking?"You're doing way too much of it. It'll make you go blind.She laughed and turned her face toward his. "I think you're thinking of something else."
"Excuses are a promise of repetition."
"My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time."
"The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away."
"What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted."
"The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy."
"I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him."
"I was stuck in the benefits of being a known comedian."
"We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race."
"So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting question?' Mr. Chiba: 'The story with animals.' Mr. Okamoto: 'Yes. The story with animals is the better story.' Pi Patel: 'Thank you. And so it goes with God."
"With each of those projects I wasn't thinking about how the layout would really affect the story I was working on - it wasn't the content that was affecting the layout, it was, how I wanted to draw at that point in time."
"George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already."
"I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people."
"Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be."
"I have a bad reputation for being temperamental."
"Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience."
"Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness."
"If the metaphors in everyday speech are a clue, then all of us associate blankness with virtue rather than with nothingness. Think of the moral connotations of the adjectives: clean, fair, immaculate, lily-white, pure, spotless, unmarred and unsullied."
"I hear the Wind Woman running with soft, soft footsteps over the hill. I shall always think of the wind as a personality. She is a shrew when she blows from the north -- a lonely seeker when she blows from the east -- a laughing girl when she comes from the west -- and tonight from the south a little grey fairy."
"I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?"
"All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true."
"He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It's hard to believe it, when I read it, and I have to come back to it many times, feel long across those words, make sure they are real. His love letter forever silences any doubts: "His secret purpose framed from the very beginning [is] to bring us to our full glory (1 Corinthians 2:7 NEB)."
"The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology."
"Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society."
"Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions."
"To know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits."
"Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture."
"His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile."
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