Winnipeg Quotes

• Winnipeg has the largest collection of Inuit art in the world, I believe. They can be quite simple in a great way and often have sparse backgrounds and isolated characters. They often have a really great look to them.

  Marcel Dzama

  Art, Believe, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.

  Burton Cummings

  Years, Bob, Dylan

  "Canada Inside Out". Book by David Olive, 2012.

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• I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.

  Liev Schreiber

  Hate

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• Being Canadian and from Winnipeg, I have the spirit of a dreamer because of the cold, and being in the basement thinking of possibilities of where else I can be in the world, in a good way!

  Sarah Carter

  Thinking, Dreamer, World

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com. August 8, 2011.

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• You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society.

  Stephen Harper

  Ghetto, People, Migrants

  "The Report" Newsmagazine, January 22, 2001.

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• The atmosphere was even greater than in Winnipeg last year. The place was almost packed for warm-ups, which was fun for us. You look at the group and you get your salute and you get the standing ovation and that means a lot to us.

  Jennifer Botterill

  Fun, Mean, Hockey

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• We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I dont think theres any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Growing Up, Real, Eye

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• I'm from Winnipeg, you idiot!

  Chris Jericho

  Wwe, Idiot

  Twitter post from Mar 3, 2015

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• The Winnipeg Art Gallery has a good collection of Inuit art, and most of what I've seen I've seen there or in the few books I have. I should spend more time researching.

  Neil Farber

  Art, Book, Inuit

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.

  Len Cariou

  Sweet, Children, Growing Up

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• I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.

  Daniel Gillies

  Depressing, Rain, Air

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

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• Well, I had a wolverine. It was supposed to be a cat, but Jason (Patric) is allergic to cats. I can't remember where I got it. Some back alley taxidermy, maybe? But I think I got it at The Bay taxidermy department. Downtown Winnipeg. Next to the tumbleweeds.

  Guy Maddin

  Cat, Thinking, Back Alleys

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• There are more speculators about New Westminster and Victoria than there were in Winnipeg during the boom and they are a much sharper lot. Nearly every person is more or less interested and you will have to be on your guard against all of them.

  William Cornelius Van Horne

  Persons, Victoria, Speculators

  Canadian Pacific Railway Company, William Cornelius Van Horne “Van Horne Letter Book: Dec. 3rd, 1884-Feb. 3rd, 1885”

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