Canadian Quotes

I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.

Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.

A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.

I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.

All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.

People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me.

My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.

If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.

I want to make smart television.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

I basically was a precocious little kid.

TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.

To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.

THIS Duty implies that we should affectionately interest ourselves in whatever concerns the Honour, the Fame and Security of our Sovereign and his Government.

That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.

LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others.

IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.

It is the Band which unites the Interests of Individuals; it secures to them their respective Rights, and preserves them from Injuries; it is the Source of numberless Blessings, which are interrupted, or wholly vanish, the Moment it is disturbed.

If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid aside; but just the Reverse.

All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.

A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.

What we want is to become masters in our own house.