Jeffrey R. Immelt Quotes
Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star.
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Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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I have people who say, 'You should dress up like this, or you should dress more modest; you should cover up more.' And then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have, like, 'Why are you still wearing your scarf? You're in America, you know.'
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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
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I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.
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Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.
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My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad's Republican, so that's what I decided to register as.
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I am a fiscal conservative.
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I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
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The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.
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The moment we turn over the soil we start poisoning it and we go on poisoning it all the way through... and there's probably not a river in the United States that doesn't have pesticide poisoning in it. The fish are dying. The seas are getting polluted. All of these things are happening. The rain forests are going. That's what the context is.
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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
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If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.
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I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.
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Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility.
