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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• Naked Lunch was from about a thousand pages of material. A lot of it overflowed, then, into the cut-up trilogy including Nova Express.

  William S. Burroughs

  Cutting, Lunch, Naked

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

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• Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is two people because it is a statement of the impasse of dualistic universe which he has created, they have created. I think that any dualistic universe ends in Nova. Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is a kind of God. A God of stupidity, cowardice, ugliness.

  William S. Burroughs

  Thinking, Two, People

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• The Nova Mob doesn't have motives, as we understand motives. "Sex is profoundly distasteful to a being of my mineral origin," as a leader of the Nova Mob, Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin, said on one occasion.

  William S. Burroughs

  Sex, Leader, Minerals

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• I was in a store in Halifax, Nova Scotia that I love, sort of like an environmental friendly sort of store. But they had a great book section. So I went in there all the time. The woman who worked there - which I feel so bad; I've forgotten her name - she handed me the book and she said, "Hey, you should read this. I think it would make a good movie." I remember reading the back of it and I was like, "Huh." Then I just devoured the book and I was so moved by it and said, "Why don't we start developing this into a film?" So that's how it ['Into the Forest'] all started.

  Ellen Page

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  "Into The Forest: Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood Survive a Quiet Apocalypse". Interview with Don Kaye, www.denofgeek.com. July 28, 2016.

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• I've always been interested, - if you look back at my work from the beginning, really - I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface. We reshape the earth's surface, from architecture to paving streets, to parking lots and buildings that are really reforming the surface of the earth. Reforming nature, taking over what we find. And we're mushing it around and remaking a new earth - or, what we used to call Terra Nova.

  Lebbeus Woods

  Ideas, Landscape, Looks

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• Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are?

  Robin Morgan

  Self, World, Splits

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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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• Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to
  destroy part or all of the planet...But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the grow ing scope of atomic war and to recognize that unless another war is prevented it is likely to bring destruction on a scale never before held possible, and even now hardly conceived, and that little civilization would survive it.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, War, Civilization

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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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• 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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