Stephen Pagliuca Quotes
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.
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Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
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I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her, to capture readers like she does. But I didn't think about 'Harry Potter' when I wrote 'The Bone Season.'
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I am really precise about who I want to work with and, no matter the timeline, I push to get what I think would be cool.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT.
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I bought these pink sticker things... and I would write things on them, and I wrote, 'I will write an international smash,' and shortly after, it was when we did 'Monster,' and it was an international smash.
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I think there is an army clock ticking in me. I value time. I always want to be on time. I don't complain about things, saying, 'There is no caravan here,' etc. For example, they could only arrange a tent on the location of 'Pareshanu Raa'. I understand the importance of money. I respect my work a lot. Not that I am the only one who works hard.
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Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.
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I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.
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I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.
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A lot of things we're supposed to do are hard to do, but we can do them. They're always beneficial. Really, some things that are hard are beneficial.
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Pitchers are smart. They know they are much better off if they mix things up and keep you off-balance.
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I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.
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Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.
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Human warmth is perhaps the most lacking in a composer who lives his life in a recording studio.
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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.
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We need someone in Washington who knows how to build jobs from the ground up.
