Andrew Nikiforuk Quotes

Bitumen, the new national staple, is redefining the character and destiny of Canada. Rapid development of the tar sands has created a foreign policy that favours the export of bitumen to the United States and lax immigration standards that champion the import of global bitumen workers.

Andrew Nikiforuk

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CharacterChampionDestinyCanada

I'm up at 5:30 or 6, but not willingly. By 8:30, I'm in my home office. I take a swim in the afternoon, and I garden. We have about an acre of land.

Robert Silverberg

HomeGardenLandOfficeUpTake

I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.

Maureen O'Hara

TodayNowMoviesWhyUnderstandWay

What is the distance between here and there, between now and then, between right and wrong? In Greg Baxter's pellucid first novel, 'The Apartment,' it may be simply the length of a day - but a day in which one travels surprisingly far, literally and figuratively.

Stacey D'Erasmo

DayWrongDistanceNowFirstRight

If you're holding onto negative stuff from before, you cannot deliver excellence.

Robert Forster

ExcellenceNegativeYouCannotStuff

Follow up the interview with a phone call. If Carrot Top can figure out how to use a phone, so can you.

Tom Cole

YouPhonePhone CallFollowTopOut

I didn't have the base I needed to win the election.

Rodney Alexander

WinElectionNeededBase

I think that some of the archetypes and works of science fiction that have pierced pop culture and stayed there are the darker ones and the dystopias.

Robin Sloan

ScienceCultureThinkScience Fiction

If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out.

Lou Ferrigno

PeopleYouHideFindTryOut

If you've been fortunate enough to have some success in business, I think it's important to put something back.

Lloyd Dorfman

SuccessBusinessThinkEnoughYou

I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.

Dinah Sheridan

EnjoySomeWearingPeriodActually

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Chief Seattle

LifeManWhateverWebHeHimself

I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

HappyChildThinkPushBackBeen

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