Chrystia Freeland Quotes
Western investment is usually assumed to walk hand-in-hand with the democratic values of its home countries, and indeed, opening an economy to outside money is one of the textbook steps in a shift from authoritarianism to an open society.

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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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We're all functions of our societies, right? And we all become who we are because of the invisible forces that mold us.
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It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.
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I think when people are jumping on top of each other's ideas, it elevates it a lot more than me going into the studio and working on something all by myself for a while.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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Western investment is usually assumed to walk hand-in-hand with the democratic values of its home countries, and indeed, opening an economy to outside money is one of the textbook steps in a shift from authoritarianism to an open society.