"In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that we are inundated with American cultural information and political information. Whereas the opposite is not true."

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Source : "'Canadian Jon Stewart' Explains Thanksgiving". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 9, 2010.

Rick Mercer

#Growing Up Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Political Quotes

“I'm not a detective from Baker Street or an old lady who solves crimes while she's knitting in an easy chair. I'm just a book girl. So I can't make a deduction, only take a flight of fancy--er, forget I said that. I meant, I can only take a guess.”
“It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.”
“I have an abacus at home.”
“Some people have called me arrogant or believe that is my reputation, which is far from what I really am like.”
“The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.”
“Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?”
“Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.”
“The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which.”

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