Good Canadian Citizen Quotes & Sayings

When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love. — Orlando Bloom

The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations. — Wade Davis

Not that I'm against meat eating. But I think we're eating too much. — Michael Pollan

I think it's really important, when you're redefining a character [ Spider-Man], for the audience to experience things that they haven't experienced, from the ground up. I wanted to build a character. I feel like point of view is a really crucial thing in the story, and that you need to build up the emotional building blocks, so that you can experience all the other emotions in a very specific way, rather than just experiencing it in an intellectual way. — Marc Webb

When you're in prison, you can't do anything about what's happening outside. — Fela Kuti

I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents. — Sandra Oh

If all issues are personalized, we lose our capacity to entertain ideas, to generalize from our own or someone else's experiences, to think abstractly. We substitute sentimentality for thought. — Wendy Kaminer

My favorite part of any baseball book - and I read a lot of them - is the anecdotes. I believe there is a story within every boxscore and for me - the more outrageous the better! — Jonathan Weeks

We live in terribly complex times. We are confronted by very serious problems. Some of us are faced with sickness, with economic difficulties, with worry and concern over many matters. Our refuge, our peace, our well-being lie in walking in the way of the Lord. — Gordon B. Hinckley

We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature", but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that almost anything can become "human nature" if society defines it as such. — Robert Anton Wilson

The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order. — Janet Burroway

Before the war, she'd never have gone out in the rain and happily stood in it. Now, it was a reminder that she was alive... — Soraya Lane