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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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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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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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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Doors opened for me and I ran for it.
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The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.
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When you have kids as cute as mine - offsetting my features - you need to highlight them.
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Nobody knows whether we were catalysts or invented something, or just the froth riding on a wave of its own. We were all three, I suppose.
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I still don't consider myself as going Hollywood. I did a movie because the opportunity presented itself and it was fun. When everything stops being fun, I'll go onto something else.
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The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
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It's a lot of wonderful things about the Bay area and Oakland that I absolutely love. I wouldn't change being from there by any stretch.
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Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.
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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.
