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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Being a mother comes first for me. Before my husband, before this surrogacy crusade, before myself. I don't see myself as particularly strong.
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You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.
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On Saturday mornings, because I'm surfing a lot for the part in 'John From Cincinnati,' I'll get up about 5:30 A.M .and go to Malibu and surf. There's something very therapeutic and healing about it.
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Writing 'Schottenfreude' has reinforced the fact that there are few, if any, emotions that have not been experienced, and analyzed, by some of the world's greatest writers.
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I am the world's oldest teenager. I've never lost my youthful attitude.
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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.