Chrystia Freeland Quotes

I love the Internet. I love my mobile devices. I love the fact that they mean that whoever chooses to will be able to watch this talk far beyond this auditorium.

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• We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Help
  • Reason
  • Feel

• I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Me
  • Sure
  • Definitely

• This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Game
  • Sports

• It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Great
  • America

• 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.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Me
  • Respect

• New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Life
  • Animal
  • Fight

• It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Women
  • You
  • Sexy

• I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.

  

  Ed Balls
  • People
  • Think
  • Television

• Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • People
  • Peace
  • Alone

• I'm going to do anything I can do - whether that's being part of FIFA or creating some sort of movement that can actually impart real equality across all lines - in every country, every city, every sector all over the world, that's what I'm going to do.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Country
  • Real

• Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Time
  • Great
  • Men

• As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Picture
  • Moon
  • Paper

• In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Fear
  • Contrast
  • Dissent

• Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Man
  • Noise
  • Symphony

• By 15, I was lucky enough to find the theater.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Enough
  • Find
  • Lucky

• I love the idea of modern art in a home that isn't totally modern. There's a certain energy that comes out of that juxtaposition.

  

  Darren Star
  • Art
  • Home
  • Energy

• Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Genius
  • Regions
  • Imitate

• I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?

  

  Ralph Ellison

• I'm pushing back against the white, misogynistic, heterosexual establishment in the music industry. Like, literally, in all its forms.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • Music

• I love the Internet. I love my mobile devices. I love the fact that they mean that whoever chooses to will be able to watch this talk far beyond this auditorium.

  

  Chrystia Freeland