Pierre Trudeau Quotes

We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege.

Pierre Trudeau

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• Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

  

  Og Mandino
  • May
  • Service
  • Better

• I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Source
  • Governor
  • Compensation

• A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Up
  • Real
  • Done

• My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.

  

  Carl Honore
  • World
  • Book
  • Speed

• Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Great
  • Help
  • Death

• All of my main characters have been under 30.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Characters
  • Been
  • Main

• Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Light
  • Single

• I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

  

  R. Kelly
  • History
  • Day
  • Chicago

• I busted my butt all my life building companies.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Building

• Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Words
  • Building
  • Blossom

• I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

  

  Questlove
  • Best
  • Write
  • Pressure

• I have people who say, 'You should dress up like this, or you should dress more modest; you should cover up more.' And then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have, like, 'Why are you still wearing your scarf? You're in America, you know.'

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Grow

• As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Nature
  • Childhood
  • Transformation

• I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Basketball

• The number one thing I look for is personality. For me, the personality of someone makes them more and more attractive over time ... and for those with bad personalities, less and less attractive. I look for honesty, intelligence, kindness, and a good work ethic, to name a few.

  

  Manika
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Training
  • Boxing
  • Changing

• Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Never
  • Choice
  • Writer

• The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.

  

  Ehud Olmert

• There's the God within and the God without, and you have to attend to the alignment of the two of them.

  

  Van Jones
  • God
  • Two
  • Alignment

• I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • People
  • Interview
  • Wrong Person

• Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.

  

  Paul Davies
  • World
  • Doubt
  • Differences

• Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Science

• We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege.

  

  Pierre Trudeau
  • Freedom