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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle."
"Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights."
"I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any challenge."
"We are going to have a huge Oscar issue, you are going to see everything in such beautiful detail."
"The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken."
"Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about human nature is not. Eliminating discrimination against women is important, but believing that women and men are born with indistinguishable minds is not. Freedom of choice is important, but ensuring that women make up exactly 50 percent of all professions is not. And eliminating sexual assaults is important, but advancing the theory that rapists are doing their part in a vast male conspiracy is not."
"We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse."
"And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing."
"I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it."
"If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly."
"I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so... that's about it."
"In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care."
"The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others."
"My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit."
"Long, I am woman who speaks but one language, the language of the fall--discontentment and self-condemnation, the critical eye and the never satisfied."
"Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within."
"If I knew I couldn't win races, I would have stayed in the States."
"I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization."
"Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches."
"When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity."
"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."
"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."
"Well, Brett was a pretty laid back kid and I think all the pressure was heaped upon my eldest boy, Bobby."
"Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play."
"Her latest client is Professor Desmond Curnin, a university professor who teaches library sciences to large groups of students. He's quick to pay on-time, quick to never fall behind. He's a brown-haired man with an unkempt beard and thick-framed hipster glasses. He slides a leather briefcase stuffed with dollar bills into the open window of Geraldine's car. "Your fly's unzipped, Geraldine points out, disgusted. "Who gave you a license to sell hot dogs, buddy?"
"When I'm able to see the ice ahead of time when I get the puck, I'm able to make some pretty good plays."
"Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon."
"If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal."
"The loss of my child broke my spirit."
"The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn."
"The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general."
"I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular."
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