Montreal Quotes - Page 2

• Since the beginning, I always loved the game.

  Mario Lemieux

  Hockey, Games

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• The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.

  Saku Koivu

  Hockey, Unique, Player

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• Maybe I was cast into a different role (in Montreal) and it seemed to follow me around wherever I went, ... Everyone is skeptical until you produce. It's up to me from this point forward. I'm going to get an opportunity to maybe take on a bigger role leadership-wise and offensively.

  Darcy Tucker

  Wise, Opportunity, Different

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• My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  School, Parent, France

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

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• You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.

  Jay Baruchel

  Growing Up, Class, Underdog

  "Actor Jay Baruchel: Why I Insisted on a “Butt Double” for New Film". Interview with Bradley Jacobs, www.usmagazine.com. March 12, 2010.

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• My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had to be called in to restore order. It instilled in me that one's convictions can be subjected to empirical test.

  Steven Pinker

  Order, Police, Tests

  "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2008.

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• My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesnt happen very often.

  Saku Koivu

  People, Special, Kind

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• But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and that the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand them.

  Hugh MacLennan

  Simple, Night, Tragedy

  Hugh MacLennan (2009). “Watch that Ends the Night”, p.266, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• And, of course, all of my friends and family are so excited because they feel like Montreal is being represented on Mad Men.

  Jessica Pare

  Men, Mad, Family And Friends

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• I'm a very unhealthy person, and Montreal is very cold, and I'm usually sick when I'm there.

  Grimes

  Sick, Cold, Unhealthy Obsession

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• I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers.

  Jessica Pare

  Summer, Dad, Sibling

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• No one in Montreal learns how to skate. You're just born that way.

  Martin Brodeur

  Hockey, Nhl, Way

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• Why should Canada, wild and unsettled as it is, impress us as an older country than the States, unless because her institutions are old? All things appeared to contend there, as I have implied, with a certain rust of antiquity, such as forms on old armor and iron guns,--the rust of conventions and formalities. It is said that the metallic roofs of Montreal and Quebec keep sound and bright for forty years in some cases. But if the rust was not on the tinned roofs and spires, it was on the inhabitants and their institutions.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Gun, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Journeys, Adventures & Life in Harmony with Nature – 6 Book Collection (Illustrated): Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada & Canoeing in the Wilderness - North American Highlands Series”, p.961, e-artnow

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• Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear.

  Oscar Peterson

  Long, Clubs, Jazz

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• In Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh is sweet and white, like wood under green bark. From the streets a sexual manifesto rises like an inflating tire, “the winter has not killed us again!

  Leonard Cohen

  Girl, Sweet, Spring

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• It was a whole different world, and Montreal was an absolutely beautiful setting unlike anywhere I'd ever been before. So, Montreal in '76 was an encompassing experience I will cherish for the rest of my life.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Beautiful, Different, World

  "Sugar Ray Leonard - "The Big Fight" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• The Montreal Protocol is a model of cooperation. It is a product of the recognition and international consensus that ozone depletion is a global problem, both in terms of its causes and its effects. The protocol is the result of an extraordinary process of scientific study, negotiations among representatives of the business and environmental communities, and international diplomacy. It is a monumental achievement.

  Ronald Reagan

  Ozone, Community, Achievement

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1990). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Baseball will be back to Montreal, I want to see it. I want it to happen before I die. I will see it

  Felipe Alou

  Baseball, Want, Happens

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• Hockey is like a religion in Montreal. You're either a saint or a sinner; there's no in-between.

  Patrick Roy

  Hockey, Saint, Sinner

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• At the end of six innings of play, it's Montreal 5, Expos 3.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.

  Mavis Gallant

  Girl, Patience, Dream

  Mavis Gallant (2011). “Varieties of Exile”, p.200, New York Review of Books

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• Perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol.

  Kofi Annan

  Successful, Agreement, Protocol

  Kofi Atta Annan, United Nations. Dept. of Public Information (2000). “"Wir die Völker" : die Rolle der Vereinten Nationen im 21. Jahrhundert ; [ein neues Jahrhundert - neue Herausforderungen]”, p.56, United Nations Publications

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• Let Toronto become Milan. Montreal will always be Rome.

  Jean Drapeau

  Rome, Toronto, Milan

  "House Beautiful", Vol. 133, (p. 216), 1991.

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• Bonjour to all the beautiful people of Montreal because this is like home to me. We had Sugar Ray Leonard here who changed the globe and took on Roberto Duran right here in Montreal. How did we get to Montreal? Because it's one of the fairest cities in the world. We were looking for a neutral site and we picked Montreal. Sugar Ray Leonard came in and Roberto Duran beat him - because we got our fair shake in Montreal.

  Don King

  Beautiful, Home, Cities

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• My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been Poland. The borders were changing. My dad brought over a large family of Shatners when he was very young. Scraped together the money, got 11 brothers and sisters a passage on the boat. There's a lot of Shatners in Montreal.

  William Shatner

  Mother, Brother, Dad

  Source: www.esquire.com

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