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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes."
"I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble."
"I've had so many experiences in cycling, but in some ways I have nothing left to prove. I have achieved more than I could have dreamed of, I've raced a lot longer than I thought I would. I know I can still be better, but I just don't know if I love it enough any more."
"Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence."
"I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad."
"What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem."
"My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set."
"I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization."
"Toyota was the first to put a commercial fuel cell powered car on the road, and I have no doubt that Toyota will continue to be in the front lines in the development of competitive fuel cell vehicles."
"I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium."
"When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity."
"Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed."
"Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression."
"It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it."
"There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered."
"Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor."
"You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart."
"The Darwinian approach to sex is often attacked as being antifeminist, but that is just wrong. Indeed, the accusation is baffling on the face of it, especially to the many feminist women who have developed and tested the theory. The core of feminism is surely the goal of ending sexual discrimination and exploitation, an ethical and political position that is in no danger of being refuted by any foreseeable scientific theory or discovery."
"I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life."
"Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend."
"We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us."
"My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration."
"The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape."
"I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary."
"First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously."
"We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore."
"Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon."
"Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment."
"I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body."
"After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really."
"The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like."
"I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them."
"I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption."
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