"[On what bugged him] A fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes."

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Source : Ralph Klein's remarks of Edmonton (1990), as quoted in "Welcome to Ralph's World: 10 of Ralph Klein's most colourful quotes" by Andrea Janus, www.ctvnews.ca. March 29, 2013.

Ralph Klein

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“We [Americans] know Martin Luther King Jr. as a statue. We know him as a holiday. We know him as a speech. We don't know him as a man. Most people don't even know the whole speech, just "I have a dream." They don't know what his speaking voice was like, how he looked at his wife, or that he had four kids.”
“My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.”
“I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.”
“I must be doing something right. I've been around for a long time.”
“Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life (that nothing matters, nothing changes, money is everything, etc). Writing is a state of being as well as an act of doing.”
“The chance to be a general manager in major-league baseball and for a franchise as storied as this one, probably as storied as the Giants, is great.”
“One can't learn much and also be comfortable One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable”

Source : Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.44, Baen Publishing Enterprises
“I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words. I scatter them ... in time, and space. A message to lead myself here.”

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