Novas Quotes

• With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.

  Stephen Lang

  Telescopes, Myopic, Stories

  "'Terra Nova is the Hubble Telescope of television,' says Terra Nova star who means that in a good way" by Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. March 09, 2012.

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• I grew up in Nova Scotia, so there werent a whole lot of rules.

  Diego Klattenhoff

  Nova Scotia, Grew Up, Whole

  "Playing Buck Hunter with Diego Klattenhoff of Homeland and The Blacklist". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. September 27, 2013.

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• I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.

  Steven Sater

  Rocks, House, Listening

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• I'm a tomboy from Nova Scotia.

  Ellen Page

  Nova Scotia

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

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• Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.

  Simon Newcomb

  England, Nova Scotia, Descent

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer.

  Robert MacNeil

  Summer, Brother, Home

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• There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova.

  Babyface

  Artist, Labels, Mines

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• Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Courage, Exercise, Mountain

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• I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called me to make an album with him, which was Super Nova.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Together, Groups, Albums

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• I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.

  Peter MacKay

  Home, Mean, Law

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• Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.

  William Cobbett

  United States, Ribs, Body

  William Cobbett (1933). “The Progress of a Plough-boy to a Seat in Parliament: As Exemplified in the History of the Life of William Cobbett, Member for Oldham”

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• I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia.

  Peter MacKay

  Home, Quiet Moments, Wife

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• Maybe that’s why I’ve made it as far as I have – 2,521 miles. If I ran to a doctor every time I got a little cyst or abrasion I’d still be in Nova Scotia. Or else I’d never have started. I’ve seen people in so much pain. The little bit of pain I’m going through is nothing. They can’t shut it off, and I can’t shut down every time I feel a little sore.

  Terry Fox

  Pain, Doctors, People

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• Chevrolet was puzzled when they discovered that their sales for the Chevy Nova were off the charts everywhere but in Latin America. They finally realized that "Nova" in Spanish translates to "no go." Not the best name for a car... anywhere "no va."

  Tom Waits

  Latin, Names, America

  "Tom Waits Spills the Beans to Tom Waits". Interview with Joan Anderman, www.boston.com. May 22, 2008.

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• In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.

  Dante Alighieri

  Memories, Book, New Life

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• You're like my favorite song, Nova. The one that I never want to forget. That I want to play over and over again.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Song, Play, Want

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• Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. ... Now the iron of old nova coughings vivifies the redness of our blood.

  Howard Bloom

  Stars, Science, Blood

  Howard Bloom (2000). “Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century”, Wiley

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• America, so far as her physical history is concerned, has been falsely denominated the New World. Hers was the first dry land lifted out of the waters, hers the first shore washed by the ocean that enveloped all the earth beside; and while Europe was represented only by islands rising here and there above the sea, America already stretched an unbroken line of land from Nova Scotia to the Far West.

  Louis Agassiz

  Ocean, Science, Islands

  Louis Agassiz (1873). “Geological Sketches”, p.1

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• In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit Vita Nova. Under such rubric I find written many things; and among them the words which I purpose to copy into this little book; if not all of them, at the least their substance.

  Dante Alighieri

  Memories, Book, Purpose

  Dante Alighieri (2015). “La Vita Nuova: The New Life”, p.12, The Floating Press

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• On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provincial album; my albums are national albums. There'll be a song about Saskatchewan and Vancouver and Nova Scotia on there.

  Stompin' Tom Connors

  Song, Vancouver, Albums

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• About half of the loyalists who left the United States ended up going north to Canada, settling in the province of Nova Scotia and also becoming pioneering settlers in the province of New Brunswick.

  Rachel Martin

  Half, Canada, Becoming

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I didn't know that there were any radio stations in Nova Scotia.

  Elvis Presley

  Radio, Nova Scotia, Knows

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• Well, I'm very dyslexic, so I can't read music. It means I never know where I'm at so it's different every single time. I know when it works though. I might end up doing a bosa nova version of Bad Day when I get to Australia!

  Daniel Powter

  Mean, Bad Day, Australia

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• I come from Nova Scotia, and I'd never seen a theater or been inside of a theater. When I was 17, my dad asked me what I wanted to do, and I said I thought I would like to be an actor. I didn't have any idea what it was to be an actor. None. I'd wanted to be either an actor or a sculptor, which are both essentially the same thing. That's how it all started for me.

  Donald Sutherland

  Dad, Ideas, Actors

  "Donald Sutherland on 'Forsaken', Working with His Son for the First Time, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 21, 2016.

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• The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals.

  William S. Burroughs

  Writing, Criminals, Purpose

  William S. Burroughs (2011). “Nova Express”, p.7, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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