Jean Chretien Quotes

I didn't feel the need to have a lot of yes-men standing around me. As Mitchell Sharp once put it, the bigger the staff, the smaller the minister.

Jean Chretien

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• Mitchell Sharp

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• A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Person
  • Rights
  • Others

• Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we've never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for a long time, we were totally winging it.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Time
  • Long
  • Process

• I hope the BWF (Badminton World Federation) will seriously do something about the Olympic qualifying format or risk getting badminton dropped from the Games.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • World
  • Hope
  • Risk

• Basically, I didn't know anything about fashion. I was very nerdy; I went to Bryn Mawr and never even noticed models when I was 21.

  

  Fatima Siad
  • Know
  • Fashion
  • Never

• And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Alone
  • Interested

• You're saying that you yoked the world to your patented grains and seeds, happily enslaved us all-and now you finally realize that you are dragging us all to hell.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • World

• Much less is it adviseable for a Person to go thither to America, who has no other Quality to recommend him but his Birth. In Europe it has indeed its Value; but it is a Commodity that cannot be carried to a worse Market than that of America, where people do not inquire concerning a Stranger, What is he? but, What can he do?

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • People
  • America
  • Quality

• The most important step in getting a job done is the recognition of the problem. Once I recognize a problem I usually can think of someone who can work it out better than I could.

  

  Leo Szilard
  • Work
  • Important
  • Done

• In my family, I'm the middle of three, and I'm like a lot of middle children. I was one of those kids that floated from group to group. I liked being able to be included in all the groups - the bad kids, the smart kids.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Children
  • Family
  • Kids

• So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.

  

  Jami Gertz
  • Age
  • Missing

• Since I'm constantly in the sun, I use sunscreen daily.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Sun
  • Daily

• I went to see 'Star Trek Into Darkness,' and J.J. Abrams, who's a friend of mine, made this film, and I went to see it at the premiere. Believe it or not, I was really blown away by the comic timing of it.

  

  James Gray
  • Believe
  • Friend
  • Star

• There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Work
  • Long

• The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold shoulder was viewed as a primitive reaction, now to be replaced by sophisticated diplomacy. Outreach would substitute for isolation.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Trying
  • Cold

• I'm always just excited about every opportunity that comes my way.

  

  Clinton Sparks
  • Opportunity

• When I'm home, I go back to the same routine that I've had since I was a kid.

  

  Phyllis Smith
  • Home

• People quite often think of the question 'Are we alone in the universe?' in terms of other civilizations out there: life forms that have reached at least our level of technological development.

  

  Dimitar Sasselov
  • People
  • Life
  • Alone

• I discourage a cult of personality.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Personality

• When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?

  

  Al Pacino
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Younger

• I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Perfectionist
  • Staff
  • Insisting

• My wife was diagnosed with lupus 16 or 17 years ago, and that's how I kinda got involved in it. I just finished my fifth annual Bobby Hatfield Classic Golf Tournament, and happily I can report that we raised over $52,000. Through the years we've raised not only through the golf tournament, but through other charitable concerts, we've raised over $600,000.

  

  Robert Lee Hatfield
  • Wife
  • Golf
  • I Can

• It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Young
  • Utter

• I didn't feel the need to have a lot of yes-men standing around me. As Mitchell Sharp once put it, the bigger the staff, the smaller the minister.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Minister
  • Staff
  • Mitchell Sharp