Stephen Pagliuca Quotes
To me it's incontrovertible that investment in people, investment in business, creates jobs; they don't destroy jobs.
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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way.
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I try to be unafraid of making a fool of myself.
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Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.
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American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.
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Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this.
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A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!
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It's not actually OK to just be apathetic about anything.
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I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna.
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The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material.
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Heart of my heart, the world is young; Love lies hidden in every rose! Every song that the skylark sung Once, we thought, must come to a close: Now we know the spirit of song, Song that is merged in the chant of the whole, Hand in hand as we wander along, What should we doubt of the years that roll?
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All workers want is a fair shake.
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I've always been a singer, but I don't know if I was always a natural performer.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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One of the biggest turnoffs is being presented with an idea that's already, to a degree, complete. That's not an adventure, and it's not a learning experience. It's more of a chore. Then you become a technician with taste, as opposed to an explorer and an author.
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CEOs must go beyond working with policy-makers on new regulatory frameworks. They must also commit to the principle that success cannot be measured by profitability and growth alone.
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The way that I make films is that I sit down and I think, "How much money could I get with less consequences?" And that's how I start. I'd rather have less money and total autonomy than more money and start having to answer to things, because then I'm not being true and the money men are not being true.
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To me it's incontrovertible that investment in people, investment in business, creates jobs; they don't destroy jobs.
