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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"No one wants to be entrapped by his or her addictive habit..."
"Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be SMcQ23667bot@hotmail.com."
"Jerry and I always felt that the character was enjoying himself. He was having fun: he wasn't taking himself seriously. It was always a lark for him, as you can see in my early drawings."
"Behind every successful woman are people who bring out the best in her, encourage her and cheer her on!"
"We very much regret that our merger with Sprint was not allowed to proceed."
"You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!"
"I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending."
"The power behind taking responsibility for your actions lies in putting an end to negative thought patterns. You no longer dwell on what went wrong or focus on whom you are going to blame. You don't waste time building roadblocks to your success. Instead, you are set free and can now focus on succeeding."
"My organs are too powerful... I manufacture blood and fat too rapidly."
"I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea."
"We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor."
"But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him."
"I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know."
"No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher."
"In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences."
"We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that."
"But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp."
"I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to."
"In life I've learned one thing; if you want to be good you have to connect with the best people. So I got very close to the high-stakes players here. I get to watch them and play with them a little bit."
"It's not enough to fill your head with wondrous ideas-you must initiate action."
"However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance."
"People never like pollution, it has become very wrong to like pollution at all. But just like there are good and bad things about people, there are good and bad things about pollution. If people were pollution we would get rid of anyone who was different, anyone who was considered an inconvenience, but we'd be getting rid of a life, a lot of lives, because we didn't like them. If pollution was a person would we still be trying to get rid of it? Would we have environmentalists still complaining and protesting and trying to get rid of all pollution?"
"One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not."
"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."
"Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better."
"First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government."
"They were new money, without a doubt: so new it shrieked. Their clothes looked as it they'd covered themselves in glue, then rolled around in hundred-dollar bills."
"Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed."
"What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease."
"NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage."
"I believe the world to be a muffin pan, and there certainly are a lot of muffins here."
"I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage."
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