Jean Chretien Quotes

President Bush is a friend of mine. He's not a moron at all.

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• Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Food
  • Government
  • Water

• If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Want
  • You
  • Point

• I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Training
  • Goals
  • Doing

• What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Man
  • Funny
  • Destiny

• There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Hair

• America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Up
  • America
  • Responsibility

• I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Different
  • Effect
  • Delightful

• I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Always
  • Adolescent
  • Anorexia

• In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • War
  • Army
  • Egypt

• I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Life
  • World
  • Death

• How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Real
  • Human

• Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Mask
  • Citizenship

• I always give RZA that support as far as saying he brought Wu-Tang to the table. It was his philosophy. He picked certain dudes to be part of this group, and he said, 'This is what it's going to be called.'

  

  Raekwon
  • Support
  • Philosophy
  • Saying

• Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Why
  • Man
  • Him

• It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Power

• At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Interesting
  • Nice
  • Color

• It's important for Republicans to nominate someone who not only has a vision of how to create jobs, but who has done it. That's why I am endorsing Texas Governor Rick Perry for President.

  

  Sam Graves
  • President
  • Jobs
  • Create

• You know, people really don't understand what actors do.

  

  Sally Field
  • People
  • Know
  • Understand

• Joyous Sound evolved from a gospel influence. Actually it evolved out of sitting at a piano and just picking out a riff, a gospel type riff. It just seemed to come joyously-something about the song, about living in another place of joyous sounds. I'm not quite sure-that's one I'm trying to analyze. It just came out.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Piano

• Lenny Breau was a genius - inspired and really loose. I loved how he used the guitar as an extension of his inner freedom, because, obviously, on the outside there were a lot of trainwrecks going on. But when you listen to him play, you hear what kind of guy he really is

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Kind

• Beauty is a fading flower, Truth is but a wizard's tower, Where a solemn death-bell tolls, And a forest round it rolls.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Truth
  • Death
  • Flower

• Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.

  

  Rabia Basri
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Religion

• When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • She
  • Soul

• President Bush is a friend of mine. He's not a moron at all.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Friend
  • Mine
  • President Bush