Gina Raimondo Quotes
I want to hold government accountable and help create a more efficient and effective government.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
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I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
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To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
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We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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I'm a big believer in keeping the stage directions really tight.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
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You're going to be much less likely to point the finger at somebody and create a huge brouhaha when it wasn't necessary if you had stopped and asked yourself, 'Could I have done things to prevent this situation?'
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The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
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My favourite artists are the ones who are human, and you know they're not in a failure-proof environment.
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Formerly an anti-Semite was somebody who hated Jews because they were Jews and had a Jewish soul. But nowadays an anti-Semite is somebody who is hated by Jews.
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I want to hold government accountable and help create a more efficient and effective government.
