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Chrystia Freeland Quotes

Executive pay has skyrocketed for many reasons - including the prevalence of overly cozy boards and changing cultural norms about pay - but increasing scale, competition, and innovation have all played major roles.

Chrystia Freeland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: canadian
Birth: August 2, 1968

Topics

Innovation Competition Cozy Pay Many

When you're in something like 'Game of Thrones' and get the chance to play a part like Bronn, with that cast and with Peter Dinklage, it's wonderful.

Jerome Flynn

Game Chance You Play Wonderful Get

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

Meghan O'Rourke

Mother Home Death World Year Anchor

I never professed to be perfect. I do something wrong or something stupid, I laugh at myself.

John Madden

Myself Stupid Laugh Perfect Wrong

That's such a great thing about New York, after growing up in a place and being there for twenty plus years, there's still a whole island to discover.

Steven Strait

Great New York Growing Up Place New

Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version.

Stacy Schiff

Imagination Yourself Tolerance Lose

Do you like my suit? I think this is an amazing suit, don't you think?

Tom Selleck

Amazing Think You Suit Like I Think

The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise.

Robert Fitzgerald

Heart Me You Can Do It Language You

People traveling to malaria-prone areas can protect themselves by taking steps such as taking antimalarial drugs, using insect repellent, sleeping under insecticide-treated bed-nets, and wearing protective clothing.

Tom Frieden

People Sleeping Protect Clothing

There is nothing inherently conservative in the ancient world.

Mary Beard

World Nothing Conservative Ancient

I love my Nike Air Max trainers. They're big and bulky and spanking - I can't be doing with grubby trainers.

Michael Socha

Love Doing Air Big Nike Max

I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history.

Mohammed Morsi

Nature Technology History Culture

However great his outward conformity, the immigrant is not Americanized unless his interests and affections have become deeply rooted here. And we properly demand of the immigrant even more than this. He must be brought into complete harmony with our ideals and aspirations and cooperate with us for their attainment.

Louis D. Brandeis

Great Harmony Become Immigrant More