What Canada needs is a shift in focus away from consumption and towards savings and investment,


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DON DELILLO
A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his li...
DON DELILLO
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to ...
DON DELILLO
I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
DON DELILLO
In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
DON DELILLO
I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to un...
DON DELILLO
The future belongs to crowds.
DON DELILLO
True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and t...
DON DELILLO
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the id...
DON DELILLO
People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
DON DELILLO
It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
DON DELILLO
America was and is the immigrant's dream.
DON DELILLO
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract ...
DON DELILLO
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time whe...
DON DELILLO
Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
DON DELILLO
Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.
DON HENLEY
Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?
DON RICKLES
When writing, I split my time between my chambers and my satellite office: my neighborhood Chick-fil...
DON WILLETT
When I take a black-and-white portrait, it's not particularly meant to please you. It's mean...
DON MCCULLIN
Our Constitution exists to secure individual freedom, the essential condition of human flourishing. ...
DON WILLETT
I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it'...
DON BLUTH
A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.
DON HENLEY
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
DON PIPER
what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and...
DON MARQUIS
ihave often noticed thatancestors never boastof the descendants who boastof ancestors i wouldrather ...
DON MARQUIS
If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.
DON KING
The body responds to a calorie deficit by slowing down the metabolism and burning muscle tissue. Tha...
DON KARDONG
In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watc...
DON AMECHE
I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I...
DON HENLEY
My career is one of people involvement. I'm a promoter of the people, by the people, for the peo...
DON KING
If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders ...
DON TAPSCOTT
One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.
DON SHULA
The person who has no enemies has no followers.
DON PIATT
Las Vegas is the boiling pot of entertainment.
DON RICKLES
There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
DON MARQUIS
Many a man spanks his children for the things his own father should have spanked out of him.
DON MARQUIS
So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.
DON MARQUIS
A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
DON MARQUIS
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
DON MARQUIS
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long e...
DON MARQUIS