Top 1200 Western Canada Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
It's a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler.
I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.
I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.
The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.
I think gossip and scandal is something from Western culture that has pervaded the rest of the world.
For 20 years I've had the privilege of representing Canada around the globe... first on the bike and then on my blades. The experiences have shaped me into who I am today.
Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.
I realized that performing was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company Synergy in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.
The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.
No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.
People ask 'How do you get so eh-ish?' I don't know if it's just because so much of my family still lives in Canada and I finished studies up there.
You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.
I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
I can manage to get into any outfit, whether Indian or Western, and carry it off.
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
I know I am always pumped, as an audience member, to go and see a Western.
We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.
There is no way I could've been so durable playing in the Western Conference. The travel is nuts.
Canada, the drinking age is 18, that's unnecessary. Nobody wants to get loaded around people who have hope and their whole lives still ahead of them.
Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.
There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way.
Indigenous languages are Canada's national treasures. They are our identity. We simply have to put greater effort into rejuvenating and revitalizing them. It is key to moving forward.
Stephen Harper, who's the prime minister of Canada, he is saying that this - we have to give him a majority government, otherwise there will be a Separatist coalition. And he says it every minute.
Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.
If you want to go foraging into the wilds of Canada without proper gear, you deserve what you get, even if that happens to include being attacked by an undead moose.
As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.
Fairly or not, Western consumers associate Chinese products primarily with 'low price.'
I have very strong belief in bringing Western and Eastern medicine together. It doesn't have to be polarized.
There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.'
A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.
I would love to have a song that fusions western arrangement with classic Indian instruments.
I got heckled off stage in Western Australia at a music festival once.
A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.
It is alright to ape Western music, but we have to ask ourselves if that is what we need in our films.
My vision for Western Kentucky's economy is to turn the region into a world leader in agritech.
Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!
In the end I'm in love with it [Western European easel painting]. And that's where a lot of the influence from the work comes from.
Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.
Unlike Western parents, reminding my child of Lord Voldemort didn't bother me.
I realized that 'performing' was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company 'Synergy' in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.
Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.
As far back as 2008, the Canadian Forces brass was explicit: drones with 'all-weather precision strike capabilities' were a 'requirement' for Canada's overseas operations.
As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.
I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was.
Western culture is what gave us Mozart, and Da Vinci, and Wagner, and Beethoven.
I know for me, specifically, L.A. is just an overwhelming and scary place. I like spending part of my year there, but I love having Canada as my home to come back to.
Western classical music is participative. Look at the number of people who are involved in a symphony.
Looting is the only way left for the Western financial system to make money.
That's something that I'm trying to do in my work, to send a message to western people. They're the ones who are completely disconnected.
It worries me that western journalists, especially British ones, call everyone they don't like 'marginal.'
The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.
This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and Canada, and the rest, overseas.
My grandfather came to Canada from Romania just before the Second World War, already in debt after buying his boat ticket on borrowed dime.
I haven't written a score that's going to change the Western world or the musical as we presently know it.
I'm one of the people who believe the great lines come from either Western or bluegrass music.
Marriage Asian-style is practical, contractual and, to the western mind, deeply unromantic.
