Seems Quote by Eden Robinson Download Open image “In general, Americans like to be entertained. Canadians seem more suspicious of it.” — Eden Robinson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Seems Suspicious
Americans love to be entertained, often at the expense of our judgment, morals and values. — Jemele Hill Copy Share Image
“Americans, though apparently impressed by ghastly sentimentality and outrageous hypocrisy, are by nature much more politically cynical than Canadians. In their longer history they have had much more to be cynical about. They demand a vulgar show, enjoy it, guffaw, and forget it the next morning. When a new U.S. President takes office all bets are off and his campaign… — Gordon Donaldson Copy Share
Canadians have an inherent good nature, and they are used to being made fun of. — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
Americans are much easier to please than Canadians. The American taste is less critical. Canadians are more cultured, they are more aware of the… — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
. . . Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
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… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's… — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
The uber polite people who are the neighbors to our north and how we can be so different and yet so the same because… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of… — Scott Thompson Copy Share Image
There's just kind of a sweetness about Canadians. Americans are a little more pushy, I mean, in a way that I enjoy - they're… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American. — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the… — Harland Williams Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have a book in me, but I'm sure I have more essays. — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
The push and pull of representing your world responsibly and your artistic license is a tricky balance. — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
Dad and Mom were frustrated artists - Dad wanted to study engineering or architecture and Mom wanted to be an actress - but the… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
I think we're in a 1970s-level moment of social transition and they're always full of upheaval. As violent and deranged as we can be… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
We can be the new brand of self-extincting dinosaurs or we can evolve. — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
“Close your eyes. Concentrate on your breath. Remember that you were not always earthbound. Every living creature, every drop of water and every sombre… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton: January 19. I am absolutely certain that this affects my… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness. — Eliza Bisbee Duffey Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to these pictures firsthand experience begins to retreat, to seem more and more trivial. While it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems they have usurped it. It therefore becomes imperative… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working… — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
Going to a site with more users seems obviously better to me, but at the same time, having a bland, middle of the road… — Christian Rudder Copy Share Image
They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time. — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
Why do we love certain homes, and why do they seem to love us? It is the warmth of our individual hearts reflected in… — T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings Copy Share Image
To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that… — Thomas Willis Copy Share Image
