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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it."
"The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me."
"On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience."
"Well, you know, it's been interesting because an album is just a snapshot of where you are at that time. Not all pictures of everybody are just in jeans and a 'T' shirt, or a ball gown. You have many different sides and this is a snapshot of where you are at that time."
"My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends."
"Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law."
"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."
"Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other."
"It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway."
"There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers."
"I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it."
"It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did."
"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."
"There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up."
"I always thought I should base how good I am on how good I feel I am."
"The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have appeared well in public."
"Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses."
"I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I'm the same character, but I'm having more fun this season because I'm doing more aliases, you know. I like the surprise of not knowing."
"Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people."
"I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you."
"Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War."
"The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you."
"Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep."
"If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me."
"I prefer Princess. I would love to be known as a diva later on in life when I've had far more experiences."
"Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government."
"It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I'm finally getting to do what I really wanted to do."
"Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression."
"I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it."
"Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government."
"And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical."
"Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities."
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns."
"I once got a letter from a woman who told me she was 90. She said if she were 30 years younger, I would have had to watch out. I guess 60 seems really young when you're 90. She said she would eat me with a spoon."
"After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor."
"If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course."
"Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile."
"Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains."
"And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true."
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