Canada Quotes - Page 31

• The opportunity to go up to Canada and play was just a blessing for me and my family.

  Darren Flutie

  Blessing, Opportunity, Play

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• Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  United States, Lows, Britain

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• The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Country, Educational, Mean

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• We're not the public service of Canada, we're not just another department. We are the Canadian Forces, and our job is to be able to kill people.

  Rick Hillier

  Jobs, Army, People

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• I was going to be a High School teacher. I was studying at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, up in Canada. I was also acting in a wonderfully supportive theatre community in Edmonton. There's a lot of support for theatre there. So, I was having a great time, but I didn't consider acting as a serious career initially, because even the most successful actors that I know in Edmonton are not super successful. Acting over there is just not a success-oriented career.

  Nathan Fillion

  Teacher, School, Successful

  Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The reigning Miss Canada has been arrested for punching out another woman in a bar fight.Quite frankly, I think it's refreshing to finally find one beauty pageant winner who is against world peace.

  Jay Leno

  Fighting, Thinking, Missing

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• I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles.

  Matthew Perry

  Player, Tennis, Ottawa

  "Man to Man: Matthew Perry". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. September 11, 2012.

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• I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never seen that kind of spider before, I'm from Canada and we don't get those types up there.

  Elisha

  Spiders, Kind, Coming Out

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• The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.

  Ernst Zundel

  Unfortunate Things, Building, Unfortunate

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• What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work.

  Peter MacKay

  Military, Government, People

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• I can get a better role in TV and work more constantly than I can waiting around for my friends in Canada to call me every four years - which they do - and I go up there and play a leading role.

  Sandra Oh

  Waiting Around, Years, Play

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• I'd like to do a film in Canada, but it's too difficult. National Film Board funding takes too long, and there's too much paperwork; by the time the film is approved the topic is dead and gone.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Long, Topics, Boards

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• The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.

  Azim Premji

  Character, Community, Groups

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• I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada.

  Jason Priestley

  Government, Bash, Canadian Government

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• The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.

  Spider Robinson

  Men, Apollo, Mars

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• There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.

  Wayne Rogers

  Running, California, Cry

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• I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical.

  Shane Smith

  America, Boring, Hypocritical

  "Vice's Shane Smith on What's Wrong With Canada, Facebook and Occupy Wall Street" by Jeff Bercovici, www.forbes.com. January 3, 2012.

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• It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the exact same drugs manufactured by the exact same companies.

  Bernie Sanders

  Europe, Drug, Citizens

  "Single payer health: it's only fair" by Bernie Sanders, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2011.

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• Canada is a big part of my life.

  Gail Simmons

  Bigs

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• I think Canada, our industry is still somewhat based in America's industry.

  Scott Speedman

  Thinking, America, Stills

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• Look, I don't think President Obama would have bowed to the ruler of Saudi Arabia if he didn't have oil to the degree that the Saudis do. I think they and other producing states, almost all of whom, except Norway and Canada, are dictatorships or autocratic systems, have thrown their weight around because of oil.

  R. James Woolsey, Jr.

  Thinking, Oil, President

  "Gary Hart, James Woolsey: Oil Tied to Security". Interview with Daniel Stone, www.newsweek.com. August 05, 2010.

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• I think there's a certain objectivity that comes from being Canadian. You're partly British and partly American; you have a good bird's-eye view of both countries. So much of the comedy that comes out of Canada is impersonation - it's less 'look at me' than it is 'look at me playing other people.

  Eric McCormack

  Country, Eye, Thinking

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• Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island from Canada, and after that when they come from the fields in La Connor, not far from where I live.

  Rebecca Wells

  Flower, Islands, Fields

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• Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things of the mind.

  Robertson Davies

  Class, People, Mind

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

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• I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget.

  Ellen Page

  Grew Up, Lows, Budgets

  Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. April 14, 2006.

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