Quotes by Canadian/Canada authors (page 38)

"We're not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it's certainly willingness to compromise but we're not going back on the fundamental things we're running on in this campaign"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint"

Neil Peart, Musician

"It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later"

Neil Peart, Musician

"When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. We're seeing that the creation, we're seeing those numbers not only grow but shift toward the private sector and shift toward full-time employment and these are all signs that the recovery is taking some hold but we're not out of woods"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!"

Ryan Reynolds, Actor

"Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.'"

Ryan Reynolds, Actor

"Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky"

Ryan Reynolds, Actor

"Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns"

Rick Danko, Musician

"I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me"

Rick Danko, Musician

"So, I completely and utterly support David and Gillian's decision to go to Los Angeles, but I think that Vancouver is the perfect location for the show"

Nicholas Lea, Actor

"At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming"

Nicholas Lea, Actor

"If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum"

Neil Peart, Musician

"For me being the youngest, there was never ever anything that was an issue to cause rivalry between me and my sisters"

Nicole Appleton, Musician

"Nothing beats having this beautiful child look at me and say mum. I get soppy all the time"

Nicole Appleton, Musician

"Any room where you feel a good vibe is a good place to write"

Nicole Appleton, Musician

"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"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed"

Rick Moranis, Actor

"I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock"

Rick Moranis, Actor

"And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies"

Rick Moranis, Actor

"About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs"

Rick Moranis, Actor

"When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people"

Ryan Reynolds, Actor

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