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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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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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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It's time to begin righting the story of your life.
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I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.
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How the alternative reduces one's prospect and petrifies the imagination in a way that the possibility can never do. Possibilities, innumerable and tightly packed, could shower forth like mushroom spore between such alternatives as being here, or there; alive, or dead; and old, or young.
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I have an expression that really describes my philosophy. If you take the words ‘show business’, the word ‘show’ comes first. Therefore, if you have a great show, you will have a great business. If you don’t have a good show, you’ll have no business.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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To me it's incontrovertible that investment in people, investment in business, creates jobs; they don't destroy jobs.
