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“There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.”

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Jarvis Cocker is a British musician born in September 1963. He is best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the band Pulp, whose music style blends rock, pop, and indie elements. Cocker is recognized for his distinctive voice and sense of humor, making him a significant figure in the British music scene. more

“At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting.”

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Author:Jean Chretien

“I learned early that business is business and politics is politics. The proof is how few important businessmen have made good politicians. They may think that they are very smart about everything because they made millions of dollars by digging a hole in the ground and finding oil, but the talent and luck needed to become rich are not the same talent and luck needed to succeed on Parliament Hill.”

“It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow.”

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Author:Jean Chretien

“Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find it much of a science either.”

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Author:Jean Chretien

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