Chrystia Freeland Quotes
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.
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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
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The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.
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Many bought into the idea that America could go from a technology-based, export-oriented powerhouse to a services-led, consumption-based economy - and somehow still expect to prosper. That idea was flat wrong. Our economy tilted instead toward the quicker profits of financial services.
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Racism, sexism, and age-ism are all alive and well in the U.S. House.
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Slavery is America's original sin and was the great global injustice of that age.
