Chrystia Freeland Quotes
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.
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The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.
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It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.
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I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.
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Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.
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For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.
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I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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The Broken Bow group is such a great family and seem like a group of tight-knit people. When I looked for a new label, I wanted to feel I could trust everybody. I wanted motivation to be at an all-time high.
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I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski
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I don't sleep much. Five to six, I'd say. You could argue that people, as they get older, sleep less - probably because they're afraid of dying at some point. I know my parents don't sleep much. I know that I used to be able to sleep until noon when I was younger. I couldn't fathom staying in bed until ten now. I wouldn't know what to do unless there's a football game on.
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America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.
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Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.
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To hold on to what you believe is just and right.
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My husband, a.k.a. Swede, and I both come from athletic backgrounds, so once we identified the goal - get book published - we attacked it. At any given time, I would have my writing out in 25 various forms - either contests, mentoring critiques, agent/publisher queries, etc.
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People don't just want to be rich and successful, they want to be good.
