Steven Rattner Quotes
As a beneficiary of the carried interest loophole, I've seen firsthand the lack of any difference between the work involved in generating a carried interest and the work done by millions of other professionals who are taxed at the full 35 percent rate.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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I knew that I wanted to write about a very young woman because I wanted to see the eyes of the art world in a fresh or even slightly naive way. Because there's something very honest about entering a room and not having a read on everyone there.
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it's footwork. I constantly work on it, and it's a never-ending process.
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When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
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I used to feel guilty about owning a console.
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We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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I'm always going to be working on my English, and I'm always going to work on my English so that I can do different characters from different nationalities.
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
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War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.
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As a beneficiary of the carried interest loophole, I've seen firsthand the lack of any difference between the work involved in generating a carried interest and the work done by millions of other professionals who are taxed at the full 35 percent rate.
