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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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 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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Food can be very transformational, and it can be more than just about a dish. That's what happened to me when I first went to France. I fell in love. And if you fall in love, well, then everything is easy.
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It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful.
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Christian Science has always appealed to the middle-classes and the upper middle classes. In part, this is because it requires a certain amount of education to study 'Science and Health' to the degree that Christian scientists do. It's not an easy book to read! It's 700 pages, and it's written in a nineteenth-century manner and diction.
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Everyone is guilty at one time or another of throwing out questions that beg to be ignored, but mothers seem to have a market on the supply. "Do you want a spanking or do you want to go to bed?" Don't you want to save some of the pizza for your brother?" Wasn't there any change?
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In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.
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The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'
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If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.
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My favorite foods are things that aren't great to eat, like pizza.
