"To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it."

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Source : Jean Chretien (2010). “My Years as Prime Minister”, p.3, Vintage Canada

Jean Chretien

#Exercise Quotes #Frank Quotes

“The thing about living in a village at the foot of a mountain is that the world for you becomes, without thinking about it, self-contained. People are of two kinds, really: from the Valley, and from Elsewhere.”
“There is a tremendous acceleration and many of us will be moving dimensionally - through that sixth, seventh, dimensional element that will be here for those of us who are ready to engage with our galactic and universal neighbors.”
“Iâ€™m here now, Iâ€™m inevitably going to die at some point, and as an artist I feel an ardent urge to constantly be creating.”
“The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.”
“A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.”
“My friend, Sue Ann, in college pulled me aside and said, 'Honey I love you but you have got to start waxing your eyebrows. They look wild!' So thank you , that kinda changed my life.”
“It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.”
“Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking. I often feel like I have to go back to that 17-year-old Chris Crutcher, and that forms the core voice. I can draw on teens from 1964 to 2001 to find a part of the voice I need.”

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