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 like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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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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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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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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I normally have a healthy fear of journalists.
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When I was a young executive, I was always nervous that my idea wouldn't be great. So I asked around, 'What do you think of this?' That became my filter for whether my idea was good enough. Then I realized it just plain made me smarter.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.
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The morality of a society is not judged by the behaviour of an oppressed class but by the rules and laws made by the state, which either protect or exploit an already depressed section of society.
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It's good to be good at playing defence, but the best defence is a strong offence.
