Vancouver Quotes

• Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous, and that with but a feeble stretch of the imagination those possibilities might wisely be deemed certainties.

  Homer

  Imagination, Degrees, May

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• I grew up in Vancouver, man. That's where more than half of my style comes from.

  Seth Rogen

  Men, Style, Half

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• I love just how beautiful Vancouver is. I mean, everywhere you look it's just mountains and ocean.

  Emma Bell

  Beautiful, Ocean, Mean

  "Emma Bell and Nicholas D’Agosto On Set Interview FINAL DESTINATION 5". Group interview, collider.com. July 12, 2011.

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• Vancouver is one of my favorite places on earth. It's gray and rainy there a lot of the time, but for some reason, even though it's gray and rainy, I feel like it's a sunny day.

  Billy Campbell

  Favorite Places, Earth, Sunny Day

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

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• The sea has now changed from its natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.

  George Vancouver

  Ocean, Fall, Sea

  George Vancouver (1798). “A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean: And Round Theworld; in which the Coast of North-west America Has Been Carefully Examined and Accurately Surveyed”, p.210

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• Vancouver is the most wonderful place. I put it up there with San Francisco and Sydney as a kind of magic sort of harbor city.

  Terence Stamp

  Cities, San Francisco, Magic

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• My favourite place in the world to run is Stanley Park in Vancouver. One loop around there is perfect.

  Matthew Morrison

  Running, Perfect, World

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• It is beautiful in Vancouver; let's face it. I mean, you have the ocean. There's mountains.

  Eric Close

  Beautiful, Ocean, Mean

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• I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.

  Bryan Adams

  Going Away, Three, Months

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• When you're out there in Vancouver doing your thing, and then you come down and you see how positive people are - people who are so jazzed and so supportive.

  Erica Durance

  People, Supportive, Down And

  Source: collider.com

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• Vancouver is dope, everybody got across the border today.

  Ab-Soul

  Dope, Borders, Today

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.

  Amos Oz

  Growing Up, Book, Ambition

  Amos Oz (2005). “A Tale of Love and Darkness”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Growing up in Vancouver, it's not like growing up in Middle America or the middle of Canada. It's a very movie town.

  Evan Goldberg

  Growing Up, America, Canada

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I think the paparazzi are absolutely ridiculous. When we were filming, there was a lot of them. It's different being in L.A., where there are so many celebrities. But, when it was in Vancouver, it was all about the film, so there was paparazzi following us. It's just part of the business.

  Tinsel Korey

  Thinking, Different, Ridiculous

  Source: collider.com

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• Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4,000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan, Italy than to Vancouver.

  Simon Hoggart

  Country, Long, Canada

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• If somebody asked me to come up with a mental image of my hockey career, there is absolutely no doubt I would be wearing the uniform of the Vancouver Canucks in it.

  Trevor Linden

  Hockey, Careers, Doubt

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• Vancouver is a beautiful area, I don't care what time of the year you're there. Vancouver and Calgary. Great places in Canada.

  Jamie Farr

  Beautiful, Years, Care

  Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

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• I always liked to go to Vancouver to shoot, because I think Vancouver's a beautiful city.

  Kurt Fuller

  Beautiful, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us.

  George Vancouver

  Taken, Robbing, British

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• We [ with Brian Mulroney and Rajiv Gandhi] went to the meeting in Canada [the 1987 Vancouver CHOGM] and I said to them there that sanctions weren't working; they were just being busted. And it did seem to me that one way that we could bring the apartheid regime down would be if we did mount an effective investment sanction.

  Bob Hawke

  Would Be, Canada, Way

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• I was in Vancouver, and I was in what I was told was the poorest neighborhood in North America - which I find very hard to believe because has anyone here ever been to Detroit?

  Eugene Mirman

  Believe, America, Detroit

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• Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.

  Scott Speedman

  Months, Wells, Underworld

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

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• We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.

  Tommy Chong

  Teenager, Radio, Firsts

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• It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time.

  Dakota Fanning

  Beautiful, Blessed, People

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• I would say a must-do in Canada would be to go skiing at Whistler in Vancouver. You could take a chair lift for like a half hour to the top of this mountain and you ski down, it takes like so long to get to the bottom. You go past the clouds. It's absolutely incredible.

  Sebastian Bach

  Past, Clouds, Long

  "Ex-Skid Row Frontman Sebastian Bach on What's Cool in Canada". Interview with Avinash Ramsadeen, www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2011.

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