Pierre Trudeau Quotes

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

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• Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • Space
  • Intelligent

• I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Religious

• What is really important for a woman, you know, even more than being beautiful or intelligent, is to be entertaining.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Woman

• It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • People
  • Time
  • Man

• I am not too intelligent.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Intelligent

• The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Good
  • Work
  • Bad

• They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Military
  • Stupid
  • Intelligent

• I'm a big fan of 'Akira,' and I think comics are a great place to tell intelligent, fantastical stories. You can say stuff that you wouldn't be able to in other mediums.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Great
  • Think
  • Intelligent

• India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Positive
  • Child
  • Independent

• I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • People
  • Friends
  • Intelligent

• You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Fight

• Some coaches prefer players who will just do whatever he tells them to. It's like, if you're at school with a load of 10-year-old boys and you tell them to jump, everyone will start to jump. But the intelligent boy will ask, 'Why should I jump? Why?' That can be difficult for a lot of coaches, and I understand that.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • School
  • Why
  • Boy

• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Courage
  • Fool
  • Intelligent

• The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • History
  • Intelligent

• I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be on your game; otherwise, she'd make mincemeat of you.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • She
  • Game
  • Thought

• Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Women
  • Culture
  • Intelligent

• I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Black
  • Intelligent
  • Short

• Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide. I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Bad
  • Enemy
  • Intelligent

• I'm a visual person.

  

  Arne Glimcher

• I can adapt to any environment or any situation I need to, so I am ready to go to Russia. You take what you get or start crying about it, but I am re-doing 'Rocky IV.' I am doing the black 'Rocky.'

  

  Deontay Wilder
  • Black
  • Environment
  • Crying

• We the Jainists of India say every day in our prayer, I worship all perfected souls, I worship all spiritual masters, I worship all spiritual instructors, I worship all holy men and women in the world.

  

  Virchand Gandhi
  • World
  • Men
  • Soul

• Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Church

• Heaven can never countenance the barbarous and unmanly practice of the Britons in America, which savages would blush at, and which, if not discontinued, will soon be retaliated on Britain by a justly enraged people.

  

  John Paul Jones
  • People
  • America
  • Heaven

• Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

  

  Pierre Trudeau
  • Intelligent