Chrystia Freeland Quotes
The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and like to be admired, so at least, at first, they often seek to be praised abroad.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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On my teams, as a guy who grew up hunting and fishing, I was in the minority in terms of music and lifestyle. I became good friends with people who listened to R&B and rap. But it wasn't just an issue of being around it - I was naturally drawn to it right off the bat.
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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Music is a language.
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I'd love to work with Michael Buble, with Tony Bennett, with Damian Marley, with Andrea Bocelli.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.
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These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.
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I'm a big music person. I compare a lot of my emotions to how something sounds.
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We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.
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Space is our tool to take care of the world. From space, we know the Earth is fragile, and we can follow oil spills and forest fires, and monitor the environment and save it. The needs of remote communities and the needs of astronauts are similar. Canada is a country that is big and has a lot of people living in faraway places. Physicians in remote areas need to have contact with more senior colleagues. We depend on telehealth for advice, X-rays, labs. At the most simple technical level, space technology contributes to remote health care.
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It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.
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The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and like to be admired, so at least, at first, they often seek to be praised abroad.
