Jean Chretien Quotes
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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.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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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.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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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.
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Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
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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.
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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.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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For decades, my research was driven by outstanding problems in macroeconomics: mainly growth theory and employment theory.
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People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.
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I look at society and I look at people and I say... I'm not Mr. Motivator. I think you get a better sense - I believe in energy. I believe in passion. I believe in teaching people.
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I wanted to avoid all that literary stuff. I didn't want the self pity of 'The Portrait,' all the moaning and the whingeing. I'm not knocking Joyce: we all owe him a debt. He's the one who made so much possible.
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The vast majority of the people who cross our border pose no risk to either country.
