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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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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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 love romantic films and love drama. Any film that has romance or romantic element is my comfort.
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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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If there be anything that can render the soul calm, dissipate its scruples and dispel its fears, sweeten its sufferings by the anointing of love, impart strength to all its actions, and spread abroad the joy of the Holy Spirit in its countenance and words, it is this simple and childlike repose in the arms of God.
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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
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We in the Jewish community must ask ourselves what role we are going to play in changing policies and practices that discriminate against LGBT Americans. We have a special responsibility and civic duty to ensure that all Americans are treated with dignity and equality.
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Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility.
