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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.

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• I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.

  

  Kate Dickie
  • See
  • Crying
  • Turn

• When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Together

• Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Work
  • History
  • Original

• Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • Age
  • Space
  • Start

• The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Child
  • Blessed

• It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Artist

• Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Flying
  • Calm
  • Rattle

• Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Children
  • Again
  • Seen

• In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Time
  • Woman
  • Chance

• Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.

  

  Adam Braun
  • People
  • Long
  • High

• The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Good
  • Light
  • Evil

• When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.

  

  Halsey
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • You

• You don't fight ideas with bombs.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • You
  • Ideas
  • Fight

• I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Career

• As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Friends
  • Kid
  • Questions

• I still like my antique clothes.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Like
  • Clothes
  • Still

• So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Women
  • Love
  • Fall

• If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Sports

• Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Reading
  • Choices

• I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Think
  • Respect
  • Environment

• If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

  

  Dogen
  • Truth

• I try to tell a story that's good enough to win the right to integrate eternal themes into it. If it's poorly written or comes across as a sermon, then obviously you don't reach people, because they're aware that you're imposing something on a story that isn't innate to it.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • People
  • Good
  • Win

• I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.

  

  Feist
  • Good
  • American
  • War