Chrystia Freeland Quotes
The economic reality is that, thanks to smart machines and global trade, the well-paying, middle-class jobs that were the backbone of Western democracies are vanishing.
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
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You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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I have been a member of the Microsoft-bashing society for quite some time.
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It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.
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It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.
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My childhood was as conventional as you could get. I think I probably created 'Arcadia' with a certain amount of wishful thinking. I would have loved to have more looseness and freedom and community.
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You tend to compose things more in the middle of frame in 3-D than you would in a conventional frame. You can really see composition in 2-D but in 3-D your composition is much more complex. Everything has to be artificially enhanced. But you do gain something else with 3-D: you have a sense of space and heightened reality.
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When it turned out that he could, Karou dropped to her knees to genuflect. "Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I accept your gift of this clever fair-haired boy
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You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.
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The economic reality is that, thanks to smart machines and global trade, the well-paying, middle-class jobs that were the backbone of Western democracies are vanishing.
