Jean Chretien Quotes

The vast majority of the people who cross our border pose no risk to either country.

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• What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Desire
  • Space
  • Innovation

• The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • World
  • Language
  • Natural

• Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Law
  • Fashion
  • Influence

• This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • People
  • Life
  • Dream

• They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.

  

  Larry King
  • Live
  • King
  • Television

• I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Good
  • Never
  • Meditation

• To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Life
  • Great
  • Everyday

• America is not the center of the universe.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • America
  • Universe
  • Center

• You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Help
  • Guy
  • Game

• The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Luck

• Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Great
  • Team
  • Serving

• I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • School
  • Friends
  • Happy

• Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • House
  • Really
  • Many

• I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Humor

• If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Love
  • Love Yourself

• Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Work
  • Game
  • Me

• All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Looking
  • Big
  • Market

• I definitely, really appreciate that quality that humans like to show constantly, even without saying anything, that they're with you and they're processing something.

  

  Emily Berrington
  • Quality

• Hearing anyone think that I'm any form of sexy or handsome is incredibly flattering.

  

  John Krasinski
  • Sexy

• I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Desire
  • Drink

• Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• In one sense, no act of reparation will be satisfactory for those whose lives were so under-valued both as human beings held in slavery and then as human chattel to satisfy the financial indebtedness of a Catholic institution. Nonetheless, the university must also put into place - as it is attempting to do - a program that both admits the horror and error of its past actions and directs its students, faculty, and administrations to an awareness of the dignity of all people, especially those who even today are often considered less than worthy of respect and dignity.

  

  Wilton Daniel Gregory
  • People
  • Past

• The vast majority of the people who cross our border pose no risk to either country.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • People
  • Country
  • Risk