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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth."
"Relationships are an art form created by two or more individuals who have similar or complementary visions, passions, and ambitions."
"It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes."
"Love is an unconditional state of being."
"Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way."
"In order to accept yourself, you must first have some sense of who you are."
"They've got the singles and some people have burnt them from different web sites and stuff. So it was something that we talked about for a long, long time, and I just wanted to make sure that this remix album to be really special."
"You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved."
"Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it."
"I think the writing on the wall is definitely there this year that this is probably our last year."
"My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
"Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on."
"The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington."
"I don't know what it is that I'm doing, but I'm really enjoying myself. And I'm free to do it as much as I want."
"I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer."
"I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace."
"I never take on anything that is just for the money or just for, you know. I always have to connect with it in a very personal way because I believe the audience will sense whether I'm into it or not, so I don't take on projects that I'm not really passionate about."
"Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing."
"The process of grieving any loss is dependent upon your relationship to the person."
"My ideal day would be to get a good work out in, listen to music, talk to my family and friends on the phone, read and go to a good movie."
"And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction."
"Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken."
"I want everybody who is watching to come to the Academy Awards with us. I'm going to pay for the bus."
"I'll tell something, a lot of times I'd listen to Charlie and some of the interviews he had and he said, 'Well, yeah, I was a garbage goal collector.' But he knew the timing. I knew where he was."
"Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises."
"It is a challenge to have your launch date slip continuously."
"People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that."
"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."
"Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior."
"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding."
"Worldview is often confused with perception; rather, it is our perception that influences our worldview."
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