Quotes
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Bruce McCall

"If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up." The Americans talked too much, mainly about themselves. Their torrid love affair with their own history and legend exceeded-painfully-the quasi-British Canadian idea of modesty and self-restraint. ... They were forever busting their buttons in spasms of insufferable yahoo pride or all too publicly agonizing over their crises."

Source : Bruce McCall (1999). “Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada”, Vintage

Bruce McCall

#Attitude Quotes #Pride Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.”
“You have to be cautious of eating continuously the same thing. Beef comes to mind right away, and there's nothing wrong with beef, but you've got to do whatever you're doing in moderation. So try to break it up a little bit. Eat some fish or some shellfish at least a couple of times a week.”
“I respond to powerful women. I'm not intimidated by that, I like that, it's not something I shy away from, so I don't want women who are looking for me to take care of them. To me, that's a turn-off. I respond to strong, powerful, independent women.”
“Youâ€™re going to leave me, arenâ€™t you? â€¦ Youâ€™ve had enough of me, havenâ€™t you? Youâ€™re probably so tired of all this crying and all these moods, and Iâ€™ve got to tell you, so am I. So am I. Sometimes it seems like my mind has a mind of its own, like I just get hysterical, like itâ€™s something I canâ€™t control at all. And I donâ€™t know what to do, and I feel so sorry for you because you donâ€™t know what to do either. And Iâ€™m sure youâ€™re going to leave me now.”
“I've been pushed down many flights of stairs in my time, but I always manage to find an elevator”
“People donâ€™t die because of loyalty.â€ They donâ€™t?â€ She smiled. â€œReligion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?â€ Eddie shrugged. Better,â€ she said, â€œto be loyal to one another.”
“It gets on top of me and I get frustrated.”
“On the average, I don't spend more than 15 minutes in the car - to go to the golf course or the gym. And that's the only time I listen to the radio.”

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