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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort."
"The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical."
"Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there."
"The environment on set is very encouraging."
"I started out in summer stock, and that's really what I prefer."
"Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality."
"Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best."
"It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher."
"I got through college realizing business was repugnant."
"We've got this weird dysgenic situation where we're basically just paying idiots to breed and taxing intelligent people to stay away from each other with anything remotely resembling fertility."
"But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience."
"Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do."
"Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it."
"What other people think about me is not my business."
"Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites."
"The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation."
"I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged."
"You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green."
"But after this last year and dealing with the studio, the rest of us are closer than we've ever been."
"I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years."
"A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion."
"I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out."
"I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set."
"If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity."
"They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in."
"In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress."
"Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul."
"We don't move on in the stunt unless it looks like a hit. So when I see it on TV, I'm generally satisfied that people are going to buy it."
"After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life."
"Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally."
"I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone."
"They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop."
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