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 was born on TV, meaning that's where I caught my break. So that's where I always have to be smart and revisit that medium as much as I can.
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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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I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.
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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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That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.
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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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There's the wonder of being able to do research from your own living room, of course. I do find that my biggest research issue, though, is how to frame my questions.
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My experience bears out an adage about airlines: People almost always opt for convenience and price, even while complaining loudly about crowded planes and a dearth of amenities.
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I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another.
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Sexuality is such a small part of the make-up of someone; it's not who they are.
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To me it's incontrovertible that investment in people, investment in business, creates jobs; they don't destroy jobs.
