Canada Quotes - Page 12

• I just did 101 shows in 86 different cities in America and Europe and Canada, and I'm not lying or exaggerating when I say, at the vast majority of shows, they loved it. There were encores, there were standing ovations.

  David Cross

  Lying, America, Europe

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.

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• Despite that sort of reputation that Canada has of being a boring place, we really have produced really interesting politicians.

  Terry Mosher

  Interesting, Reputation, Boring

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In government procurement, for example, the opportunity German firms have in the United States is 10 times larger than in Canada.

  Michael Froman

  Opportunity, Government, United States

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I've been to Canada, and they love - oh my God, they love their stand-up comedy in Canada. I've been overseas to do shows for the troops all over the Middle East, and I actually went to China recently and did shows, not for the troops, but just for local Chinese people, and Americans that have moved there, and things like that. It was fantastic. They got it. They're way smarter than we give them credit for.

  Brad Williams

  People, Giving, Chinese

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• On my radio show Chris Christie came to the defense of Ted Cruz, noting that - I guess at a rally, that - one of those Iran rallies on Capitol Hill, I believe even Donald Trump, according to Christie, had acknowledged that, you know, Ted Cruz of course was eligible, and just because he was born in Canada.

  Donald Trump

  Believe, Iran, Defense

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I want to embrace all of this: touring, going to Europe, Canada, Australia. I want to travel the world, just have a great hang, and hopefully, be a messenger.

  Meredith Brooks

  Europe, Australia, World

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• When you look at belief in such things - as do you go to heaven, is there a devil - we have more in common with (Muslin countries) Turkey and Iran and Syria than we do with European nations and Canada and nations that, yes, I would consider more enlightened that us.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Iran, Turkeys

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• Well I grew up in Canada in a really small town. We didn't have running water for a long time and we didn't have TV. Then when we did get TV we only had one channel.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Running, Long, Water

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• If you want to live in 'white world,' if you want to experience the stultifying boredom and penetrating ennui that homogeneity can bring, you can go to Canada any day of the year. It's an entire country named Doug.

  Greg Proops

  Country, Years, White

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• I was born in Honduras, that's where I was born. I live in California, where no matter what you say, you're Mexican. You understand that? It doesn't matter what you say. See - you don't understand that, white people, because wherever you go, you're white. You're here, you're white. You go to L. A., you're white. You go to Denver, you're white. You go to Miami, you're still white. In L. A. I'm a Mexican, In Florida, I'm a Cuban. In New York, I'm a Puerto Rican. And when I come to Canada and I find out I'm an Eskimo.

  Carlos Mencia

  New York, Florida, California

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• Canada, or as i call them, America Light.

  Christian Finnegan

  Light, America

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• Hockey is our big sport, and if you fight in hockey you get five minutes for it, that's it. So in Canada, everyone is fighting.

  Jeremy Hotz

  Sports, Fighting, Hockey

  "Five Minutes With Jeremy Hotz". Interview with Rick Chand, deadspin.com. May 2, 2007.

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• One of the things that really worries me, in part about Mexico, in part about Latin America, and in part about the Hispanic population in the U.S. and Canada. It's the lack of awareness of this whole science world.

  Juan Enriquez

  Latin, America, Worry

  Source: bigthink.com

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• A lot of artists are scared to do that, they are scared to step out on their own. What am I the super villain of western Canada is that what I am? Is Classified the clean cut, staying true to his roots, hip hop guy from the East coast that stays in his lane and he made it big staying true to what he did and didn't make corny music? Then that is what he is and I am proud of him for that.

  Shane Bunting

  Cutting, Artist, Roots

  Source: 411mania.com

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• Canada and America are very, very different. It's true that we share a language and many customs. But Americans have a very different view of the world.

  Joseph Boyden

  Views, America, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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• America seems to celebrate its more violent past, but Canada doesn't like to recognize those things. The willingness to accept the existence of violence separates our two countries.

  Joseph Boyden

  Country, Past, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People will say that Canada, unlike America, was not birthed from violence. But I want to say, "What are you talking about?" It's just not true.

  Joseph Boyden

  Talking, America, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Again, it does seem like frustration is mounting in interesting ways, but I'm not sure there will be some dramatic tipping point. Then again, looking back on the history of television, you never know. People had to fight and articulate the politics and the rationale for different funding mechanisms. That was a long and drawn-out battle fought in different countries; it's not like BBC and the CBC in Canada just magically appeared out of the ether. People had to organize for it. I'm always willing to be surprised.

  Astra Taylor

  Country, Fighting, Frustration

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Some years later I met Queen Elizabeth II, in our capital Ottawa at a Canada Day celebration. David Foster and I were doing the show and we both met her afterwards. She told me how much she loved the Canadian Railroad Trilogy. She looked at me and said, "oh, that song", and then said again, "that song", and that was all she said.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, Queens, Years

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• Every day at about four o'clock, I would go up to a farmhouse - or whatever kind of house was around - and knock on the door and say, "Hi, I'm biking across Canada, and I'm wondering if I could pitch my tent on your land." And sometimes people slammed the door in my face, but the vast majority of the time they said, "Of course," and then they said, "Come for dinner," and then they packed me food the next day and fed me breakfast and sometimes they got out the bottle of wine they'd been saving for a special occasion.

  Pam Houston

  Wine, Next Day, Doors

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I know for me, specifically, L.A. is just an overwhelming and scary place. I like spending part of my year there, but I love having Canada as my home to come back to.

  Kristen Hager

  Home, Years, Scary

  "LESLIE, MY NAME IS EVIL Interview Pt. 1". Interview with Minuka Bartyzel, collider.com. September 25, 2009.

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• In 10 years, this sleepy Canada will be ripe for annexation - the farmers in Manitoba, etc., will demand it themselves. Besides, the country is half annexed already socially - hotels, newspapers, advertising, etc., all on the American pattern.

  Friedrich Engels

  Country, Years, Half

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• A lot of films in Canada are subsidized by the government, and compared to a studio, the government really stays out of your face creatively.

  Kristen Hager

  Government, Faces, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take us before my graduate studies in Canada and finding that the stream I had gone swimming in wasn’t there. The forest had been converted into an apple orchard with World Bank financing. The entire place, literally, had changed.

  Vandana Shiva

  Father, Swimming, Apples

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• Every major country on earth, whether it's the U.K., whether it's France, whether it's Canada, has managed to provide healthcare to all people as a right and they are spending significantly less per capita on health care than we are. So I do not accept the belief that the United States of America can't do that.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, America, People

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, February 5, 2016.

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