Best Canadian Wisdom
281 Canadian quotes by 216 unique authors
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My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.
— Shirley MacLaine
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I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
— Yann Martel
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I'm Canadian, but no, I don't speak French.
— Cory Monteith
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I feel like a Mac store! I have a Canadian iPhone, an American iPhone and an iPad. I'm constantly downloading music to iTunes.
— Jennifer Morrison
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I had done Shrek as a Canadian and I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I knew I could give more to it.
— Mike Myers
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So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The…
— Rachel Nichols
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I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.
— Leslie Nielsen
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The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said…
— Conan O'Brien
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If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like…
— Ted Nugent
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I'd ice-skated before, because I'm Canadian and that's what you do as a kid, but I'd never, ever been on quad skates.
— Ellen Page
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Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and…
— Jason Reitman
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My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part…
— Gabrielle Roy
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The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality…
— Dan Savage
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My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!
— William Shatner
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I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened…
— Kiefer Sutherland
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I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as…
— Ayelet Waldman
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More customers for Canadian oil means that Canadian producers can charge more for their oil, which then means that American businesses and consumers will pay…
— Ron Wyden
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Right now, there are a limited number of customers for Canadian oil. Due to simple geography - and without the pipeline - it's really only…
— Ron Wyden
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The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything.
— Daniel Handler
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I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very warm and hospitable. And I want to thank…
— George W. Bush
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(Rush are) like the JD Salinger of Canadian Prog Rock
— Stephen Colbert
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It's possible this whole "Why do Latinos love Morrisey?" question will haunt us forever. Fortunately, Canadian academics are on the case.
— Chuck Klosterman
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Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were…
— Molly Ivins
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You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.
— Sarah Vowell
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It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as…
— Northrop Frye
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