Names:
Ray French
Quotes:
The first reference I can find to this quotation seems to be in 'The St Catharines Standard' (St Cathariens, Ontario, Canada (Osprey Press)) Ocober 13, 2000.
A Canadian politician William Peter Randall was lamenting on the lack of election races and apparent public lack of interest.
He said, 'Acclamation is not democracy, it is apathy'.
You can find more about him in Wikipedia etc.
I have seen the quotation used a few times since then and belive it may be a good addition to your database.
John
Acclamation is not democracy, it is apathy.
-Willam Peter Randall
Canadian Politician, Quotiation circa 2000
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I phoned the French Federation on Friday to ask if I could play on Monday or Tuesday instead, but they replied I was playing the fourth match on Sunday - it did not make me feel great at all. Obviously they want to sell tickets and only care about their own players. [on French Open 2006]
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Justine Henin's kind of French, with a Belgium thing - she's from the French part of Belgium.
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My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.
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I get Canadian porno - that's the extent of satellite service and Internet in my house.
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Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.
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My biggest vice is swearing. A lot. I know it isn’t attractive, but I get a lot of mileage out of the F-word…sometimes I say it like a Canadian, you know, with a little lilt at the end, like I’m asking if it’s OK, ‘Fuck?
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I think the people, the working-man people, made a statement here, that you don't have to be a college graduate to be a good Canadian.
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One thinks of French philosophy that it aspires to the condition of literature or the condition of art, and that English and American philosophy aspires to the condition of science. French philosophy, one thinks of as picking up an idea and running with it, posibility into a nearby brick wall or over a local cliff, or something like that.
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'French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.'
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Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.
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What is not clear is not French.
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There's always something fishy about the French.
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Boy, those French: They have a different word for everything!
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A man could say anything to me in a French accent and it would send me ga-ga.
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The French are predictably unpredictable.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.
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If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
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I can say Hi, I'm Ben from A1 in French, Norweigan, and German. I'm so talented, don't you think?
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