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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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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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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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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I am a fiscal conservative.
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence out in a believable way.
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I was traveling a lot as a young actor, and while in a new city, I'd want to see the place, so I would just put on my trainers and go for a jog. And the more I did that, the more I found I was traveling longer and longer distances. I just fell into it.
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From the cradle to the grave, each individual pays for the sin of not being God. That's why life is an uninterrupted religious crisis, superficial for believers, shattering for doubters.
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If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.
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Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility.
