Chrystia Freeland Quotes
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I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
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While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.
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At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
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Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
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Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
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Notting Hill is a very different carnival from anywhere else. This is an international city, so it represents everybody. You walk around every corner here, you'll hear something new. It's awesome.
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I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
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I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
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Even the good she found in him was really the goodness she had put in him, the goodness he had put on himself as a disguise in order to get her to marry him.
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There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing.
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I have a race routine. I have a team of people helping me. I have winning habits. I believe in myself. I have balance in my life.
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If you believe people have no history worth mentioning, it's easy to believe they have no humanity worth defending
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I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars.
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I really believe in hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.
