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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I mind the unmindful, but I mind my own mind too. Mine your mind, and mine the minds of others. Mind.. you are mine!"
"I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality."
"We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist."
"Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day."
"Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes."
"Anne laughed."I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you."
"There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual arts - decoration of surfaces and bodies - appears to be a human universal."
"In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope."
"Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference."
"I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so."
"All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity."
"There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States."
"In the event of a communication breakdown, decide whether you will dwell in the negative or rise above the angst and turmoil in a firm, positive manner and encourage all parties to listen and be heard."
"When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it."
"It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft."
"Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness."
"There's always risk. But I'm going to come in and play hard. I want to come in and contribute."
"It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice."
"Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate."
"There are generally three parties to child abuse: the abused, the abuser and the bystander."
"The next time, you say that you want something, watch your behavior. If you try to cop out of doing what it takes, if you hide behind excuses, if you just don't want to do what it takes then perhaps reconsider: Is what you think you want actually something that you do in fact want?"
"But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?"
"It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway."
"Service that is purely self serving, becomes a vice.Do not serve, vice."
"Who hurt you, once, so far beyond repairthat you would meet each overturewith curling lip?While we, who knew you well, your friends, (the focus of your scorn)could see your courage in the face of fear,your wit, and thoughtfulness, and will remember you with something close to love."
"I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain."
"The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal."
"We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family."
"I had a feeling about directing Cocoon II: The Return. At first I wasn't too interested because it was a sequel. Then I read the script and was excited by the relationships and its mystic quality."
"What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people."
"They cannot hurt you; their active participation, the enthusiasm in their willingness to try, proves their natural affinity and disposition to ruin, chaos, and sabotage.Some do not learn you to earn you, they learn you to burn you."
"If they are willing to give women economic freedom in that home, if they are willing to live by the standard they wish women to live by, then homes will be preserves."
"There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice."
"Do not trust a person without scars. If they have no scars, then it means someone else is wearing theirs, usually unfairly, and usually permanently."
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