quotes about Nova Scotia

“I think of myself as a funny guy but nobody thinks I'm funnier than my daughters.”

“You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.”

Source : "Actor Jay Baruchel: Why I Insisted on a “Butt Double” for New Film". Interview with Bradley Jacobs, www.usmagazine.com. March 12, 2010.

“One unanswered question is whether a Euro-Islam that combines Islam with democracy will be possible in the future. We mustn't confuse desire with reality.”

“One Chinese tweet is equal to 3.5 English tweets. ... Because of this, the Chinese really regard this microblogging as a media, not only a headline to media.”

“Advice: don't embarrass your bargaining partner by forcing him or her to make all the concessions.”

Source : Howard Raiffa, John Richardson, David Metcalfe (2002). “Negotiation Analysis: The Science and Art of Collaborative Decision Making”, p.114, Harvard University Press

“The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.”

Source : Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.69, Vintage

“Growing up, I kind of adopted that mentality, going all out, being a warrior.”

“knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith”

Source : "We". Book by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924.

“When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else.”

“In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance.”