Jean Chretien Quotes
The Western world is ... looked upon as being arrogant, self-satisfied, greedy and with no limits. And Sept. 11 is an occasion for me to realize it even more.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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I think - I don't know, maybe it's nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be - it's gone. It's going to be gone.
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I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.
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The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.
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The world is a Hobbesian state of nature in which the struggle for domination is the very essence of international life.
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Presidents, leaders, to be effective have to represent the whole to the parts and to the world outside. They may live in the centre but they must not be the centre. To reinforce the common sense they must be a constant teacher, ever travelling, ever talking, ever listening, the chief missionary of the common cause.
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The Western world is ... looked upon as being arrogant, self-satisfied, greedy and with no limits. And Sept. 11 is an occasion for me to realize it even more.
