Canada Quotes - Page 30

• Canada, by others in the global family, is, for some reason, taken seriously. They have about 30 million people. They have some natural resources.

  Tucker Carlson

  Taken, People, Reason

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Every single comedian in Canada is now living in the United States.

  Tucker Carlson

  Comedian, United States, States

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2005.

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• Well we were lucky because we started in Canada where everybody has a sense of humour! We flirted a little while with Josh Groban. He was personally interested in it. He said oh I'd love to do something different, and I said well it's pretty different! But in the end the dates didn't work out.

  Eric Idle

  Work Out, Littles, Different

  "Not The Messiah (He's A Very Naughty Boy) - Eric Idle interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• You can be deported back to Canada, absolutely, for a shockingly minor infraction. Little bar fight. Next thing you know you are back in Sascatchuan. Which I'm not from, thank God... But it did concern me.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Fighting, Thank God, Bars

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Americans should never underestimate the constant pressure on Canada which the mere presence of the United States has produced. We're different people from you and we're different people because of you. Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is effected by every twitch and grunt. It should not therefore be expected that this kind of nation, this Canada, should project itself as a mirror image of the United States.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Sleep, Elephants, Mirrors

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• As we enter our centennial year we are still a young nation, very much in the formative stages. Our national condition is still flexible enough that we can make almost anything we wish of our nation. No other country is in a better position than Canada to go ahead with the evolution of a national purpose devoted to all that is good and noble and excellent in the human spirit.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Country, Years, Wish

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• The people of Ontario have a right to know how their dollars are being spent. Ontario has the leanest government in Canada while still providing high-quality public services that people can rely on. Today, we are releasing the 2014 Public Sector Salary Disclosure list as part of our government's commitment to be the most open and transparent government in the country.

  Deb Matthews

  Country, Commitment, Government

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• Canada join the United States? Where would young Canadians run off to for adventure? Where would Americans run to escape?

  Peter Jennings

  Running, Adventure, United States

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• In the welter of statistics about selected ethnic origins (singular or multiple) in the last census, one finding was often overlooked. Of the 25,309,330 people living in Canada in 1986, only 69,065 declared themselves as Canadians.

  Charlotte Gray

  People, Statistics, Lasts

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• Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.

  George Will

  Mean, Twenties, Novelists

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• Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.

  Robertson Davies

  Country, Insanity, Dull

  Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.

  Louis Dudek

  Country, Book, Hockey

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• The most striking thing Snowden has revealed is the depth of what the NSA and the Five Eyes countries [Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, and the US] are doing, their hunger for all data, for total bulk dragnet surveillance where they try to collect all communications and do it all sorts of different ways. Their ethos is "collect it all."

  Laura Poitras

  Country, Communication, Eye

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson.

  Douglas Adams

  Country, Intelligent, Boys

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• The genius of Canada remains essentially a deflationary genius.

  Jan Morris

  Genius, Remains

  1976 'On the Confederation Special,' in Travels.

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• An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse

  Preston Manning

  Thinking, Optimist

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• There are two miracles in Canadian history. The first is the survival of French Canada, and the second is the survival of Canada.

  F. R. Scott

  Two, Miracle, Survival

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• The Canadian Identity, it seems, is truly elusive only at home. Beyond the borders Canadians know exactly who they are, within they see themselves as part of a family, a street, a neighbourhood, a community, a province , a region, and on special occasions like Canada Day and Grey Cup weekend and, of course, during the Winter Olympics, a country called Canada. Beyond the borders, they pine; within the borders, they more often whine

  Roy MacGregor

  Country, Home, Winter

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• A revolutionary should neither look or act like one to get ahead in Canada.

  Preston Manning

  Looks, Revolutionary, Should

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• Canada receives the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden with sober satisfaction. Sadly, others will take his place.

  Stephen Harper

  News, Satisfaction, Sober

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• Napoleon didn't take Moscow, the Nazis got within 21 miles in 1943, but in a war of a different kind, Team Canada conquered Moscow.

  Dick Beddoes

  War, Team, Different

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• As far as sex slavery goes, in Canada, if the woman has a Canadian accent, I'm confident that she hasn't been trafficked and forced to work as a prostitute.

  Chester Brown

  Sex, Slavery, Accents

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Auschwitz was one of the wealthiest places in the world. Everyone who was deported there had been in such a hurry that they were only able to take along the things they loved the most. Well, of course, a musician would take along her instrument. But then they would take these precious possessions away from the prisoners once they arrived. All these things were kept in a part of the camp the prisoners called "Canada." It was like a giant warehouse.

  Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

  Musician, Giants, Precious Possessions

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen or "squires," there is but one to a seigniory.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Class, House, Ordinary

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.922, Delphi Classics

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• I am impressed by the positive and insightful feedback we have received from Canadians across the country and again this morning in Brampton. The input received during the pre-budget consultation process is invaluable to our Government, as we move forward in keeping Canada's economy strong. That means keeping taxes low while investing in programs and services that are important to Canadians and their families.

  Kevin Sorenson

  Country, Strong, Morning

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