Chrystia Freeland Quotes
I see social mobility and equality of opportunity as really successful Canadian values.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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I never left doo wop.
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When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.
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I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.
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The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.
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The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.
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It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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What's appropriate in America anymore?
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We got to stop people. We go ahead and we score 100 points every night, but we give up more. Our whole thing was, we know we can score, and we have to start having some kind of fun on the defensive end. Everybody want to play offense. Not too many people want to play defense. Defense is ego, pride, and that's the way we've been coming out, just taking the challenge. Man-on-man first, and having each other's back when a guy gets beat.
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Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.
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I see social mobility and equality of opportunity as really successful Canadian values.
