Canada Quotes - Page 36

• I loved growing up in Canada. It’s a great place to grow up, because - well, at least where I grew up -it’s very multicultural. There’s also good health care and a good education system.

  Ryan Gosling

  Growing Up, Care, Good Health

  Interview with Steve Carell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 7, 2010.

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• I love playing and I like traveling. I really do like playing in Canada, its not to diminish anywhere else because touring internationally can be cool.

  Joel Plaskett

  Touring, Being Cool, Diminish

  Source: www.coltoneddy.com

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• There is a difference between our wisdom and nature's simplicity. That reflects the burden of a complex intelligence. A complex intelligence like ours is impotent compared to the intelligence of a monarch butterfly migrating from Canada to Mexico, or the intelligence of hummingbirds that have co-evolved with the flowers all along their migration route. That seems so simple; it just happens, it just unfolds.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Flower, Butterfly, Simple

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• In America everyone plays bang ball, eight ball, nine ball, that kind of stupid crap, but in Canada and Europe they play snooker which is a much more skillful game and I enjoy that. I play pool now with friends, if we go to a bar we will play, but I am nowhere near as good as I once was.

  Daniel Negreanu

  Stupid, Eight, Europe

  Source: pokerworks.com

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• As a Canadian it's something you grow up with. Where I'm from in Canada the ground usually freezes in late October and the lake is frozen until late March. We learn to skate at a young age and I learned to skate when I was three. I was on an outdoor rink when I was three-years-old.

  Gerad Adams

  Growing Up, Lakes, Years

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• when I moved to Canada in '93, I started reading fashion magazines, and that's where I spotted the M.A.C ad that RuPaul were in. That's sort of how I first "met" you - in the red bodysuit. That was so iconic to me.

  Jason Wu

  Fashion, Reading, Magazines

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's hard to be super full of yourself in Canada. If there was a motto of Canada, it would be, "Who do you think you are, eh?"

  Mike Myers

  Thinking, Would Be, Motto

  Source: collider.com

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• Very good training to just be a person is growing up in Canada. People say a lot of things about Canada, like that it's boring, but if you look around the world, you can praise boring. It's a very civilized place to grow up. I'm very proud of it.

  Mike Myers

  Growing Up, People, Training

  Source: collider.com

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• Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

  Voltaire

  Play, Imagination, Savages

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• I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible.

  Paul Martin

  Thinking, Iraq, Should

  "North Bay Nugget" Newspaper, April 30, 2003.

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• I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.

  Paul Martin

  Law, Land, Rights

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• Canada is our country. It belongs to us and we belong to it. Let us join together, in our time, and make history once again.

  Paul Martin

  Country, Together, Our Time

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• In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others

  Paul Martin

  Real, Opportunity, Equality

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• As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride.

  Paul Martin

  Pride, People, World

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• Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance.

  Paul Martin

  Stars, Distance, Night

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• I did a couple of writing seminars in Canada with high school kids. These were the bright kids; they all have computers, but they can't spell. Because spell-check won't [help] you if you don't know through from threw. I told them, "If you can read in the 21st century, you own the world." Because you learn to write from reading.

  Stephen King

  Couple, Reading, School

  "A Rare Interview with Master Storyteller Stephen King". Interview with Ken Tucker, parade.com. May 25, 2013.

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• Border relations between Canada and Mexico have never been better.

  George W. Bush

  Funny, Humor, Borders

  "America's New War: Bush, Chretien Hold Briefing". www.cnn.com. September 24, 2001.

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• Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.

  Preston Manning

  Country, Rodents, Relentless

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• Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Religious, Unity, Economic

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• The die is cast in Canada: there are two ethnic and linguistic groups; each is too strong and too deeply rooted in the past, too firmly bound to a mother culture, to be able to swamp the other. But if the two will collaborate inside of a truly pluralist state, Canada could become a privileged place where the federalist form of government, which is the government of tomorrow's world, will be perfected.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Mother, Strong, Past

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• The central symbol for Canada-and this based on numerous instances of its occurrence in both English and French Canadian literature-is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance.

  Margaret Atwood

  Survival, Literature, Symbols

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• Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Country, Heart, Feet

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• We have great respect for Canada and Britain as well, and if they start shifting policies with regards to marijuana, it simply increases the rumblings in this country that we ought to re-examine our policy.

  Asa Hutchinson

  Country, Marijuana, Shifting

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• Uranium mining in northern Canada has left over 120 million tons of radioactive waste. This amount represents enough material to cover the Trans-Canada Highway two meters deep across the country. Present production of uranium waste from Saskatchewan alone occurs at the rate of over 1 million tons annually. Since 1975, hospitalization for cancer, birth defects and circulatory illnesses in that area have increased dramatically - between 123 and 600 percent in that region.

  Winona LaDuke

  Country, Cancer, Birth Defects

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• Air Canada. That's a good name for a Canadian airline.

  Johnny Carson

  Air, Names, Aviation

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