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If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away.
Stephen Harper / Prime Minister Of Canada
Ifs
Ottawa
Giveth
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Canadians want to elect good people to be their voice in Ottawa.
Justin Trudeau / Member Of The Canadian House Of Commons
Good People
Ottawa
Good People Good People
Canadians
Good Voice People
Elect
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Actually, I'm the only politician in Ottawa who is against the Paris Accord.
Maxime Bernier /
Accord
Ottawa
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I went to university for three years, but I wasn't in Ottawa for three years.
Rob Ford / Canadian Politician
Ottawa
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I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.
Douglass North / Economist
Elementary School
Ottawa
Secondary School
School Elementary Elementary School
Elementary
Private
Secondary
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In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots.
Tommy Douglas / Politician
Dove
Hawks
Ottawa
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My mother did a tremendous job of raising four children in Ottawa under a spotlight.
Caroline Mulroney /
Ottawa
Spotlight
Tremendous
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Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.
Goldwin Smith / Historian
Ottawa
Political
Royal
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I just love Ottawa because I was able to develop a lot of things, my own character as a man.
Rohan Marley /
Ottawa
Love Character Man
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My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.
Paul Anka / Singer
Good Family
Littles
Ottawa
Towns
Education Family Good
Canadian
Little Town
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Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive!
Maurice Duplessis /
Fifteen
Ottawa
Twenties
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On a craggy bluff above the majestic Ottawa River stands the remarkable embodiment of our system of governance: Parliament.
John Allen Fraser / Canadian Member Of Parliament
Embodiment
Ottawa
Rivers
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Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role.
Kim Campbell / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Ottawa
Real
Roles
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Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
Vicki Delany /
Active
Concentration
Ottawa
Canadian
Spot
Published
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I used to live on a reserve, but I went back and forth between my reserve and Ottawa where my father lived, so I kind of had a double life growing up.
Kaniehtiio Horn /
Ottawa
Double
Forth
Reserve
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I became a big Kings fan, and then later on my hometown of Ottawa got a team, so then I was very, very torn. I just love both of those teams very much.
Matthew Perry / Actor
Kings
Fans
Hometown
Ottawa
Team
Torn
Teams
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On the way from Chicago, I spent the summer of 1947 in Ottawa, helping to build the first of a series of econometric models for the Canadian government.
Lawrence R. Klein /
Chicago
Helping
Models
Ottawa
Series
Summer
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I saw my dad, my mother and all the people who were part of the party in Ottawa, and of different parties, working really hard for what they believed in.
Caroline Mulroney /
Ottawa
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I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa.
Peter Mackay / Member Of The Canadian House Of Commons
Conservative
Inclination
Nova Scotia
Ottawa
Conservative Government
Finish
Natural Inclination
Nova
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There's more coming tomorrow than there was today. Quite a few people coming from Ottawa to watch. There were still a lot of people out there today. Some coming from farther tomorrow.
Alaine Chartrand /
Ottawa
People
Watches
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I danced a little as a kid here in Canada: in Ottawa at the Elite Dance Studio and at the Top Hat Dance School in Cornwall where I grew up. So I had some experience of having to learn routines.
Ryan Gosling / Actor
Dance
Canada
Cornwall
Grew
Ottawa
Elite
Hat
Studio
Routines
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The spineless pussy willows in Ottawa are actually helping to condition the Canadian public to accept the surrender of our country, which American forces were unable to accomplish in 1776 and 1812.
Paul Hellyer / Canadian Politician
Country
Ottawa
Pussy
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While I've won five Junos, I've donated four of them to the National Archives in Ottawa. Which left my fifth Juno sitting, seemingly abandoned by its four family members, on my bookcase in my dining room.
Dan Hill / Singer-Songwriter
Abandoned
Archives
Dining
Family Members
Fifth
Members
Ottawa
Sitting
Dining Room
Donated
Won
National
Seemingly
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Canadians are hardly assertive or demanding. We don't expect U.S. presidents to bow down to our prime ministers when they visit us in Ottawa, nor are we looking for the occasional kickback on an F-16 deal.
Vaclav Smil / Professor
Assertive
Ministers
Occasional
Ottawa
Bow
Canadians
Demanding
Hardly
Presidents
Prime Ministers
Visit
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You're always going to face a little bit of criticism from time to time. But I was so blessed in Ottawa for so many years. The fans were great to me there. I was blessed to have some good friends and family nearby.
Mike Fisher / Ice Hockey Player
Ottawa
Family Time Good
Friends And Family
From Time To Time
Good Friends
Nearby
So Many Years
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I was a huge 'Charlie's Angels' fan when I was a little girl, and I can go back to sitting on my couch in Ottawa, Ontario, watching TV and thinking, 'How do I get to there from here, because that looks way better.'
Stephanie Savage /
Ontario
Ottawa
Watching Tv
Angels
Couch
Little Girl
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The Fair Elections Act in its final form will require every single voter to produce ID showing who they are before they vote. Away from the noise in political Ottawa, everyone understands that this is common sense.
Pierre Poilievre / Member Of The Canadian House Of Commons
Common Sense
Noise
Ottawa
Id
Require
Understands
Voter
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When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands.
Brian Mulroney / Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Bureaucracy
Cabinets
Ottawa
Planning
Priorities
Signals
Appointed
Cabinet
Committee
Minister
Sent
Status
Understands
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I know it will blow minds, but I plan on finding an apartment in New York. I'll commute to Ottawa, so I can still be Pierre Trudeau's wife and the mother of our three children - but I also want to be a working photographer.
Margaret Trudeau / Author
Blow
Ottawa
Photographer
Commute
Pierre
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I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles.
Matthew Perry / Actor
Canada
Los Angeles
Ottawa
Player
Tennis
Tennis Player
Good Great Me
Angeles
Los
Ranked
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I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.
Margaret Atwood / Poet
Football
Games
Gray
Grew
Marie
Months
Ottawa
Quebec
Six
Six Months
Toronto
General
Bush
Cup
Hospital
Later
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What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger / Newspaper Publisher
Iran
Ottawa
Thinking
Turkeys
Washington
Extremely
Turkey
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In the summer of 1997, a little more than half a lifetime ago, I got my first proper summer job. The job, with one of the many branches of Canada's federal government in Ottawa, covered the entire tuition for my sophomore year of college.
Sarah Weinman /
Branches
Canada
Covered
Federal Government
Lifetime
Ottawa
Sophomore
Sophomore Year
Tuition
Proper
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I had no inkling of how crazy the political life would turn out to be. You shuttle between your constituency and Ottawa, you try to make every barbecue, festival, parade and charity run, but sometimes you feel pulled in 14 directions at once.
Michael Ignatieff / Member Of The Canadian House Of Commons
Barbecue
Charity
Ottawa
Political Life
Life Political Your
Directions
Festival
Parade
Pulled
Shuttle
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We want First Nations and these people to be like Canadians on a lot of points of view. Right now, that's not normal that they cannot have running water on reserve. We need to fix that, but it must not be imposed by Ottawa, a top-down bureaucratic decision.
Maxime Bernier /
Decision
Nations
Normal
Ottawa
Water
Bureaucratic
Canadians
Imposed
Reserve
View
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When I was a television broadcasting student in 1993 up in Ottawa, Canada, and my friends and I started making a show, I consciously set out to apply comedy to technology. I started tomgreen.com back in 1994, and we weren't able to put video on there yet, but we were aware that that was coming.
Tom Green / Actor
Broadcasting
Canada
Ottawa
Apply
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The anti-war politicians who have risen to power in Washington, London, Ottawa and Brussels have never had to explain why they were offering the persecuted people of Iraq nothing that was in any way more useful to them than the shoddy, outrageously ill-planned intervention that was on offer from Blair and Bush back in 2003.
Terry Glavin /
Anti War
Blair
Brussels
Intervention
London
Offering
Ottawa
Persecuted
Risen
Power People Way
Useful
Bush
Washington
Politicians
Explain
Shoddy
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