Stephen Pagliuca Quotes
I think business, government and unions have to work together, and the common enemies to the global economy. We're being beaten by the global economy, and we've got to unite together to win.
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.
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I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
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I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.
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It seems like WikiLeaks has better information on Hillary Clinton than she does herself.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
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My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.
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Health care should be affordable for everyone.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.
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I had two major activities as a child. I was trying to put on shows with kids in my street, or I was drawing. Actually, what I'm doing now is exactly what I was doing then. Either I'm drawing, or I'm gathering people for a common project. The only difference is that now they are paying me for that.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.
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Running is a part of my medicine. It's what helps relieve my stress, and it's what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that's going on in my life that I need to escape from at times - to find who I am. Running really helps me with that.
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I think business, government and unions have to work together, and the common enemies to the global economy. We're being beaten by the global economy, and we've got to unite together to win.
