Stephen Pagliuca Quotes
I was going to get a degree in economics and be a teacher. But I couldn't afford to pay for the education. So I just got the MBA and not the doctorate. I loved it at Bain, and I've been there ever since.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets.
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Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
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Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for.
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I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
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The best way to get children excited about reading is to read to them from the beginning of their lives.
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With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.
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Schools alone are not to blame for underachievement. The breakdown of the family, poverty, and decaying cities with eroding tax bases have made a good public school education nearly impossible in many parts of the country.
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My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.
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I was going to get a degree in economics and be a teacher. But I couldn't afford to pay for the education. So I just got the MBA and not the doctorate. I loved it at Bain, and I've been there ever since.
