Stephen Pagliuca Quotes
My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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No one goes into the office for fun. You go, and even if you love it, you're there to work.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
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I love to do a messy top knot because it's so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort!
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The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
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What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?
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I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
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Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy-of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.
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The words of a President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.
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It is important for all of us to show our support for the brave men and women in the United States military.
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I think we all have a little dark side we keep under wraps.
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Stay a child while you can be a child.
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My dad was always so strict that I was scared to speak to him. Haitian parents are very, 'This is adults' business; this is kids' business.'
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The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.
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It's one thing to reject the idea that it's a man's job to bring home all the bacon; it's another the 500th time your wife reaches for the check at dinner.
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If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
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My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work.
