Chrystia Freeland Quotes
This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private sector usually trumps the public one when it comes to accommodating consumer choice.
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People take things so seriously.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.
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I love football, football is my life.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.
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I like that Barack got that job.
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You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.
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In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
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I would have to have some tragedy and romance in my life, but I've actually had a very cushioned, caring upbringing. I'm desperately seeking some edge. Maybe I'll find it one day.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth.
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All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities.
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I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.
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I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.
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Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, all of a sudden, boom, they ended because of the warfare in the Congo. It was really bad for the bonobo and ironic that people with their warfare were preventing us from studying the hippies of the primate world.
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I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.
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This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private sector usually trumps the public one when it comes to accommodating consumer choice.
