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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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
  • Value

• 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

• Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are around of the Divinity.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Fate
  • Genius
  • Minister

• In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • Up
  • Black
  • Sixties

• I think all the covers I do have nice sentiments, particularly 'Your Song.' People write me very sweet messages about that song, though I'm sure there are people out there saying that I've ruined it too!

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• 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