Canada Quotes - Page 18

• Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Safe, Railroads

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• I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.

  Margaret Atwood

  Growing Up, Survival, Woods

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood”

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• America gets rock stars a little more than Canada does.

  Sebastian Bach

  Stars, Rocks, America

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• The thing is, people don't understand that girls right now are being forced to have to pick one or the other. You are being forced to have to choose wrestling or an education. I got a scholarship going to school in Canada, but it was pretty expensive because I was an international student. And so for some girls right now, they don't have the means or the opportunities to do both. A lot of girls are obviously choosing an education because you need a future and a career and everything, and wrestling can't promise everyone that. I think that's a huge barrier.

  Helen Maroulis

  Girl, Wrestling, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don't give 'em a green card.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Country, Thinking, Doctors

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 1, 2010.

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• The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city's biggest strength, and it is Toronto's unique strength.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Unique, Cities, Toronto

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• The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.

  John Bruton

  Country, Japan, Agriculture

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• The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is.

  Steve Buscemi

  Care, Trends, Location

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2001.

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• Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

  Kim Campbell

  Equality, Justice, Tolerance

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• A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.

  Robert Carlyle

  Years, Easy, Scots

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But Canada remains a crucial partner in this global war on terrorism, and we are grateful for that. Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and military personnel continue anti-terrorist operations in the Persian Gulf.

  Paul Cellucci

  Military, War, Grateful

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• Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive climate for investment and trade.

  Paul Cellucci

  Country, Organization, Trying

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• Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

  Robertson Davies

  Spiritual, Adventure, Where You Are

  The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies (1990)

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• I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

  Robertson Davies

  Country, Scotch, Desire

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• I often repeat three numbers: 20-23-26. Quebec generates only 20 per cent of Canada's wealth; it represents 23 per cent of the population, but it does 26 per cent of government spending in Canada. That's incompatible with good financial health over the long term.

  Philippe Couillard

  Government, Numbers, Long

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.

  Jessica Lange

  New York, Thinking, Location

  "Jessica Lange Says Don't Come Knocking". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. March 20, 2006.

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• I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Judging, Liberty, Causes

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• I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Thinking, Entrepreneur, Generations

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• Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day to be on a Stanley Cup team. That was a big goal.

  Bobby Orr

  Dream, Growing Up, Team

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• The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

  Camille Paglia

  Intellectual, Style, Encounters

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• I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.

  Matthew Perry

  Hockey, Law, Kind

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• There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Oil, Long, Arabia

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• When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise.

  Paula Poundstone

  Party, Rain, Noise

  "Celebrate Bad Times, Come On!" by Paula Poundstone, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 7, 2009.

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• When girls in Canada dream about becoming members of parliament, they have a pretty good expectation that parliament is going to be around for them when they graduate. There is no such expectation in Afghanistan. It's all still hope and wanting it but not really sure if it's going to be around.

  Deborah Ellis

  Girl, Dream, Expectations

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• As a woman in Canada, I get to do whatever I want to do and I'm used to that. I'm used to not having my government tell me my life is going to be restricted because I'm female.

  Deborah Ellis

  Government, Want, Female

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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