Chrystia Freeland Quotes
It's good to be good at playing defence, but the best defence is a strong offence.
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans.
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
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I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
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It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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Countries that want to achieve sustainable growth must cater for diverse forms of work and consider the rights of all workers.
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The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.
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As long as you know yourself and you got good people around you and you passionate about what you do, that's all that matters because at the end of the day, you go to sleep with the people you love, you wake up with the people you love, and you spend your time with the people you love.
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Though ye loue not to bye the pyg in the poke, Yet snatche ye at the poke, that the pyg is in, Not for the poke, but the pyg good chepe to wyn.
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It's good to be good at playing defence, but the best defence is a strong offence.
