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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"It is well known that I am pro-life... but I would not seek to impose my views on the Canadian people."
"We use intimacy to refer to the physical when it really pertains to the spiritual .."
"Sometimes, one yearns for something.For the ultimate in happiness. I yearn for it,and don't know where to look for it any longer. And I don't know if I would recognize it if I found it. And the longer I look, the more selfish I grow.For I think only of my own happiness. i think I have lost the ability to make someone else happy. If I ever had it. And I suppose we can never be happy unless we can also give happiness."
"In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted."
"No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary."
"Most of us are continually engaged in some form of pursuit. We are seeking excellence within one or more areas in our lives, and that is the basis of our motivation. It is human nature to have a need to get ahead, need a little something more-it's in our DNA. Although we may not be certain of what we need at any given moment, we know there's something. It's a competitive itch and desire to improve that never goes away."
"I'm a different person off the court than I am on the court, where I'm very competitive, a perfectionist, and I can be hard on myself sometimes. Off the court, nothing really bothers me. I'm easy-going."
"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."
"Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development."
"If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard."
"The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment."
"I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war."
"Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today."
"I'm very grateful to Jennifer Lopez, because I have something to talk about for the last couple of years."
"I'm Owen Hart and I have my own identity and my own style."
"Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers."
"I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting."
"The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price."
"There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century."
"Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back."
"I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting."
"Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised."
"And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again."
"Sometimes you don't know when you're taking the first step through a door until you're already inside."
"I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?"
"I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions."
"What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public."
"Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments."
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