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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I'm really interested in real people in extraordinary situations. The detail and reality to that.
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I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.
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He is indeed a creature of evil; but so are you, and so am I.
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I have very old-fashioned tastes.
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The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.
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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.
