Chrystia Freeland Quotes
Most of the conversation about how geopolitics is changing in the 21st century focuses on the shift from west to east and on how we're moving from the bipolar power equation of the Cold War to a new bipolar relationship, that of the U.S. and China, that determines the mood music for everyone else.Chrystia Freeland
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I voted for Barack Obama.
LaDainian Tomlinson -
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.
Ted Danson -
One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
Salman Rushdie -
The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
Caitlin Moran -
I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.
Sir Isaac Brock KB -
When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
Orison Swett Marden
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
Barney Ross -
You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
Daniel Barenboim -
When I'm in the studio, I'm strictly thinking about the beats, the rhymes and the song. The decision I make once the songs are created, and there's a barcode put on the package, and I'm out there in the street selling it, those decisions as a businessman are different than the creative decisions you make.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
Gavin Newsom -
The loneliest, most down-on-his-luck person can have a dog who adores him. The most bitter, sour person can light up with joy when he sees his dog. It is magical and, as 'The Dog Master' reveals, it is biological - we evolved together.
W. Bruce Cameron -
A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
Zane Grey -
Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.
Gary Bettman -
I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
Nancy Kerrigan -
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
Jackie Collins -
Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
Rahm Emanuel -
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
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Everybody eats something But you won't eat me You won't get me on your plate Or have me over for tea Everybody lives somewhere Mud hut or igloo But what I got is the hottest spot And it's away from you
Andy Partridge -
I read the papers online, and something usually piques my curiosity - that will then be the baseline of my research for the day.
Ben Schott -
I almost write to formula, because there's a historical beginning, then the plots get convoluted.
Clive Cussler -
The reproduction of labour power thus reveals as its sine qua non not only the reproduction of its ‘skills’ but also the reproduction of its subjection to the ruling ideology. ... It is in the forms and under the forms of ideological subjection that provision is made for the reproduction of the skills of labour power.
Louis Althusser -
You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees -
Most of the conversation about how geopolitics is changing in the 21st century focuses on the shift from west to east and on how we're moving from the bipolar power equation of the Cold War to a new bipolar relationship, that of the U.S. and China, that determines the mood music for everyone else.
Chrystia Freeland