Stephen Pagliuca Quotes
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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
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I'm down for adventure and up for anything.
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Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.
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In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.
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People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
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I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.
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I want to make Seoul more attractive. I want to make it a good investment.
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I was the youngest of six kids, and my brothers and sisters were kind of a lot older than me. And the one sister that was, like, in a close age range - she was five years older than me. She was my closest sister in age, and she was a loser.
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I love all girl squads. I'm all for, like, girl power and friendship, and I'm all about that.
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My job is to do. My job is to make women beautiful. What do I have to say?
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I don't care if you marry someone who works at the grocery store or someone who is a director of a company; everyone should have their own identity.
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I wrote 'The Facebook Era' because I felt like it needed to be written, and I was one of the people who might be qualified to do so. Specifically, my background is that I developed the first business application on Facebook.
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I wouldn't say that I relax and enjoy anything. But I think my pessimism helps. I never really expect anything good to happen, so when it does, it's a nice surprise.
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For years and years, people would say, 'The business is changing.' And I would say, 'The business is not changing. It's exactly the same as it was in the '70s, the '80s and the '90s.' But all of a sudden, the business changed, and it really did change.
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Sometimes I do stuff where people say, 'Why did you do that?' And you know, it's very simple. I do it because I've never done it before.
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As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.
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You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.
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Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.
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People strive to achieve a certain form of perfection constantly and it's impossible because it's a form of opinion. I can think someone is pretty but the person next to me can think that they're unattractive.
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All information is everywhere. Information that is not here is nowhere.
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I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
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How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person we love more than our own breath, and still ache to think of the one who caused us pain all those years ago? It's the betrayal of this second heart of ours, its flesh tied off like a fingertip twined tightly round with a single hair, blue-tinged from lack of blood. The shameful squeeze of it.
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My favorite foods are things that aren't great to eat, like pizza.
