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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics."
"The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe."
"The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris."
"Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston."
"It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak."
"I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since."
"I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal."
"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance."
"When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it."
"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."
"If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling."
"To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know."
"With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue."
"There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other."
"I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible."
"I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems."
"There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism."
"The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation."
"Well, because Dawn of the Dead can take place anywhere and it shows that actually the entire planet is contaminated, I would say that it shows the new face of our world - one person, one race, united against the invisible destructive force."
"We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen."
"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
"The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton."
"At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory."
"We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself."
"Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual."
"Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name."
"If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved."
"I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running."
"I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body."
"My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful."
"I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing."
"Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express."
"Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits."
"I would hate to see operations in the Congo held hostage to Sierra Leone but I really think that's the way it's got to be. At one point we've got to decide to get it right and we've got to be professional."
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