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.Chrystia Freeland
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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.
M. Stanton Evans -
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.
J. D. Vance -
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch -
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.
Vikram Seth -
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.
Octavio Paz -
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. Henry
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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.
Ed Miliband -
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.
Ramez Naam -
Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
Imelda Marcos -
My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
A. E. van Vogt -
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.
Frances O'Grady -
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.
Rachel Sklar
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
Randy Quaid -
The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
Maggie Hassan -
The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
Caitriona Balfe -
You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
Candice Millard -
My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
Sam Shepard
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When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
Barry White -
Congress has taken an action now that makes it absolutely improper and illegal to use waterboarding... or any other form of torture by our military and by our other departments and agencies.
Jeff Sessions -
Everybody plays back-to-backs.
Kawhi Leonard -
For me, when you have to prepare to play God, and then walking away from that, you realize just how tough God's job is. I don't want that job.
Octavia Spencer -
I love any event in the United States because I treat it like it's my home, my house. And I'm going to protect it.
Max Aaron -
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.
Chrystia Freeland