Chrystia Freeland Quotes

I interviewed Putin himself in 2000, shortly after he took over as president.

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• The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Desire
  • Reason
  • Nothing

• I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Like
  • Hang

• I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Living

• It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Story
  • Sad
  • Relationships

• Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Rich
  • Poor

• When I was really small, my mother had difficulty keeping me dressed, as I liked to be naked! I definitely had very strong ideas on what I wanted to wear. My favourite look was always Action Man and Spiderman. Now though, I really like beautiful clothes.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Mother
  • Beautiful
  • Strong

• Among the world's 500 largest companies, not one has completely relied on its own growth to develop.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • World
  • Growth
  • Own

• Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Me
  • Single
  • Popcorn

• I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Church
  • Evil
  • Catholic

• Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

  

  Ignazio Silone
  • Never
  • Revolution
  • Place

• Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Country
  • Community
  • Balance

• We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Business
  • Today
  • Quality

• The relationship between concussions and the asserted clinical symptoms of C.T.E. remains unknown.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Relationship
  • Unknown

• Boy dressed as the devil:  Everybody's afraid of the devil!Girl:  Not me!Boy dressed as a ghost:  How come?Girl:  Because Jesus loves me and the devil is afraid of Jesus.

  

  Jack Chick
  • Girl
  • Jesus
  • Boy

• To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Culture
  • Green

• Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Rose

• To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Up
  • Long
  • Book

• All that is Life in me urges me to give up God.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• I actually went to some Gamblers Anonymous classes, and I sat there for three or four of them, and I'm trying to figure out what I have in similarities with these other people, and I could never find anything. It just seems like it wasn't the right place for me.

  

  Pete Rose
  • People
  • Trying
  • Anonymous

• I'm retired from the daredevil business.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Business
  • Retired
  • Daredevil

• Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same, and everywhere one and the same in her efficacy and power of action: that is, nature's laws and ordinances, whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always the same; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Comes
  • Pass

• I interviewed Putin himself in 2000, shortly after he took over as president.

  

  Chrystia Freeland