Stephen Pagliuca Quotes
I'm a Democrat, and I think people who meet me will realize I'm a Democrat. I have progressive Democratic values.
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In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
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My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event.
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I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never really a backward-looking tendency. My banking work has taken me out to Palo Alto, what is commonly called Silicon Valley. And you sense out there is always a forward-looking outlook. And New York City.
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I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.
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When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.
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I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
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I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.
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I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'
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My favorite role is mommy. I know that sounds cheesy to people who don't have kids, or there are even some moms who think it's cheesy. It's a role you can't prepare for; it's a role you don't get paid to do, but it is the most rewarding role, and to me, it's been the most fulfilling.
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I love Bethnal Green and where I'm from. Nothing there, especially the people, ever held me back, but I never felt that I was successful there.
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I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.
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There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.
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I'm an American first, and I think that's how most people are.
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If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you!
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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
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You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.
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Hungry people are always looking for more. More things to do. More to learn. More responsibility to take on.
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Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.
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We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
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Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?
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North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again.
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I'm a Democrat, and I think people who meet me will realize I'm a Democrat. I have progressive Democratic values.
