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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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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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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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
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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.
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I've looked right and left and right again and the only party I can safely vote for is UKIP.
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As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.
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The GOP leaders are upset with me, but the Republicans around the district are thanking me for stepping up to the plate and giving them a choice in this election of a real common sense conservative Reagan Republican.
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I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn't money; it's my time.
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Whenever you make someone dependent on your money... It's this capitalist idea that I think has made America into a place where it's hard to breathe as an individual sometimes.
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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.
