Stephen Pagliuca Quotes

I've made it clear that I'm not taking special interest PAC money or accepting donations from lobbyists - ever. I want to represent the interests of the citizens.

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• My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Career

• What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Honesty
  • Clients
  • Competence

• You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Isolation

• But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Rock
  • Woman
  • Motivated

• Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • Words
  • Moments
  • Daughter

• Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • Conversation

• To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • May
  • First
  • Example

• One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • War
  • Know
  • Rules

• Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Growing
  • Turn

• I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Pretty
  • Always
  • Big

• One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Words

• When we think of India, most of us are in fact thinking of Rajasthan, that large splotch of dun-colored desert in the country's northwest which, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, was ruled by a succession of maharajas whose sense of color, opulence, and splendor created the most enduring images of India in the West.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Color

• My parents were in high school when I was born. My mom was 16, my dad was 17. They were kids, at the very beginning of coming into their own and finding themselves.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• In England or America, actors do not have to cater to an image. In India, it is almost demanded of us. Very seldom do you get a film where you can walk away from your image.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • America
  • You
  • Walk

• You don't start shooting rockets at Israel and expect that we'll just sit back supinely and die.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • You
  • Die
  • Start

• After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Want
  • Best
  • Lesbian

• I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a writers' retreat.

  

  Dana Stabenow
  • People
  • Know
  • Give

• I started doing stand-up in college.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Up
  • College
  • Doing

• We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Money
  • Whiskey

• More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • War
  • Drama
  • Wind

• We eventually learn that emotional closure is our own action. We can be responsible for it. In any moment, we can choose to open or to close.

  

  David Deida
  • Action
  • Moments
  • Emotional

• I've made it clear that I'm not taking special interest PAC money or accepting donations from lobbyists - ever. I want to represent the interests of the citizens.

  

  Stephen Pagliuca
  • Money
  • Citizens
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