Jean Chretien Quotes
We need to work together to help Africans address critical issues such as health and education, governance, water and agriculture, trade and investment and peace and security.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?
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We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.
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I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I'm a guy who has more slapstick than Joe Cool moments in his day, so I'm not taking myself so seriously.
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I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.
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That a district judge would overrule the president of the United States on a matter of border security in wartime is absurd.
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I love cookies baking. During the winter, they have these candles that smell like cookies, and I always buy like a hundred of them.
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We need to work together to help Africans address critical issues such as health and education, governance, water and agriculture, trade and investment and peace and security.
