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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual."
"Life's best coaches are those who believe in you and your potential, sometimes even before you do."
"It's funny because I think it also goes very well with the show. It has this reputation as being this love city where everyone goes to get married, but when you get there, it's very corny and tacky."
"Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us."
"Money is just the poor man's credit card."
"The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims."
"Studies have found that children who witness abuse are more likely to accept relationships that are abusive."
"More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit."
"True sportsmanship is excellence in motion!"
"Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset."
"I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it."
"If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important."
"If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high."
"The truly fearless think of themselves as normal."
"When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them."
"Ah, but dreams cannot be captured with promises,' he said. 'Like water, they elude our grasp. But water is the staff of life. I believe your dream will come true if only because you will not compromise on it and let it go too lightly."
"The promise of aspiration is that it is evolutionary. The human condition is such that we are always aspiring to be something more, something better, something nobler. It starts as a thought, a want, a need, or a desire and then grows and evolves with intention and direction, upward with lust and hunger. The continued drive feeds the rise."
"You have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window!..."
"The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one."
"I remember the first reading of the script we had and everybody was sitting around the table. I was very impressed with the level of acting that was in the room, particularly with Jennifer who has so much responsibility."
"You betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean..."
"We are creatures built on a house of cards of language."
"Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge."
"And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard."
"When someone is honest and vulnerable, they wring my heart - I want to hug them for being real..."
"Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here."
"What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material."
"I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact."
"The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions."
"Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada."
"A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since."
"It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible."
"And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone."
"The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt."
"I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible."
"So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what."
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