Chrystia Freeland Quotes
Income inequality is one thing, but a permanent division into the haves and have-nots is an entirely different thing - and much less acceptable.
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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.
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Being a grown-up woman doesn't mean you can't look beautiful, individual and different.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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The area out at Area 51 that was part of the Operation Plumbbob test continues to be contaminated. It was not cleaned up until the '80s.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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Income inequality is one thing, but a permanent division into the haves and have-nots is an entirely different thing - and much less acceptable.
