Chrystia Freeland Quotes
Changes which are slow and gradual can be hard to notice even if their ultimate impact is quite dramatic.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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I was a complete outsider in high school.
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It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.
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Of course the job has a lot of glamour. But it really is about being smarter than your average bear. Your mind is your best weapon. It's great when you're a good shot with an AK-47, but it's about being clever.
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I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
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I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?
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Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.
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Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.
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I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.
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Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
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I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.
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Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing
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Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic.
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Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.
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Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.
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Changes which are slow and gradual can be hard to notice even if their ultimate impact is quite dramatic.
