Canada Quotes - Page 9

• Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.

  Stockwell Day

  Empires, Cabinets, Century

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• My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that's all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters!

  Norm MacDonald

  Funny, Dad, Kids

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• We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. "Why do this," you may ask? Because it'll be fun.

  Rick Mercer

  Change, Fun, Government

  "This Hour Has 22 Minutes". TV Series, (1992 - ).

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• I refuse to confirm or deny anything about any deal to purchase an American NHL franchise and move it to Canada until I've completed all of the paperwork and the deal is closed.

  Jim Balsillie

  Moving, Nhl, Deny

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• Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.

  Margaret Atwood

  Country, Icons, Balloons

  "Margaret Atwood interview: 'Go three days without water and you don't have any human rights. Why? Because you're dead'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.

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• Americans don't usually have to think about Canadian-American relations, or, as they would put it, American-Canadian relations. Why think about something which you believe affects you so little? We, on the other hand, have to think about you whether we like it or not.

  Margaret Atwood

  Believe, Thinking, Hands

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Home, Long, Captivity

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• Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.

  Melanie Fiona

  Growing Up, Educational, Care

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• But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me.

  Philip Kaufman

  Film, Reason, Danger

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. February 27, 2004.

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• When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?

  Margaret Mead

  Cities, Looks, Prove It

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• Montreal, this wonderful town… Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  World, Pearls, Towns

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• You guys are evil. Canada's the best country in the world. We go to the doctor and we don't need to worry about paying him, but here, your whole life, you're broke because of medical bills. My bodyguard's baby was premature, and now he has to pay for it. In Canada, if your baby's premature, he stays in the hospital as long as he needs to, and then you go home.

  Justin Bieber

  Country, Baby, Home

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

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• At 1970 rates of production, Canada's reserves represent 923 years supply for oil and 392 years for gas

  Joe Greene

  Years, Oil, Rate

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• Canada has sent an army of 1,000 soldiers to occupy the Muslim country of Afghanistan (and ships to the Persian Gulf).

  George Galloway

  Country, Army, Soldier

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• There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Hockey, Years

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• I'll acknowledge that I'm from Canada but I don't think I'll acknowledge that I'm Canadian.

  Nicholas Thorburn

  Thinking, Acknowledge

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• Our government is committed to investing in world-class research networks such as GlycoNet, which will develop new drugs and vaccines to fight diseases that affect millions of Canadians. These investments will improve our quality of life and contribute to the creation of a stronger, more innovative economy and a more prosperous Canada.

  Rona Ambrose

  Fighting, Class, Vaccines

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• Canadians and Americans may look alike, but the contents of their heads are quite different. Americans experience themselves, individually, as small toads in the biggest and most powerful puddle in the world. Their sense of power comes from identifying with the puddle. Canadians as individuals may have more power within the puddle, since there are fewer toads in it; it's the puddle that's seen as powerless.

  Margaret Atwood

  Powerful, United States, Different

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• Only thing worse than a Frenchman is a Frenchman who lives in Canada

  Ted Nugent

  Frenchmen

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• There are a lot of slutty girls in Canada. Eleven-year-old sluts.

  Michael Cera

  Girl, Years, Eleven

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Me being biracial, me being from Canada but having success in the States, I have all these moments in my life where I'm jumping roof to roof. Black to white. Singing and rapping.

  Drake

  Rap, Jumping, White

  "Drake: I Remain Calm (2010 Cover Story)". Interview with Damien Scott, www.complex.com. February, 2010.

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• The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, Yankees, Years

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• The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada.

  T. E. Hulme

  Space, Feelings, Desire

  T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.64, Psychology Press

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• One of the cool, chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.

  John Updike

  Country, Sweden, Chaste

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• I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.

  Dalton McGuinty

  Running, Party, Commitment

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