Farley Mowat Quotes
Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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I always wanted Han Solo's confidence and swagger. My personality is way more C-3PO, but Han was always who I wanted to be.
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I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.
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There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.
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Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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Everybody is nicer to me when I'm in yellow.
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Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.
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No American is prepared to attend his own funeral without the services of highly skilled cosmeticians. Part of the American dream, after all, is to live long and die young.
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I think we Chinese are just as capable, as diligent, as hardworking, as peace-loving, and as creative as people everywhere.
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Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living downstream from the tar sands. They are not opposing it because of climate change - they are opposing it because it poisons their bodies.
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The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.
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Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.
