Chrystia Freeland Quotes
Companies and capital operate internationally, often beyond the economic reach of any particular nation-state. People are pretty global, too, living lives that freely cross national borders.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.
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When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn't truly make them safer. Politicians naturally want to do something in response to crisis, even if that something doesn't make any sense. But unfortunately for politicians, the security measures that work are largely invisible.
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If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.
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I think people should be consumers of journalism.
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The basis on which the Good Friday agreement was constructed was in addressing those problems in the history of Northern Ireland, the social and constitutional problems as well as the military problems that have been unaddressed for centuries.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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Companies and capital operate internationally, often beyond the economic reach of any particular nation-state. People are pretty global, too, living lives that freely cross national borders.
