Gina Raimondo Quotes
I don’t really care if you’re a Republican or Democrat or you want to fight about the size of government. How about a government that just works? Put your tax dollar in and get a return out the other end.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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We must strive to become good ancestors.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.
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I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.
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Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.
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I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
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"When a house is on fire, the neighbors' duty is to put it out"
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If we want to rediscover the radical message of Jesus, we must stop diluting it by focusing on power, peace of mind, and prosperity. Instead, we must embrace the truly radical message that invites us to find life through laying it down. Ironically—if we do this—we’ll actually find the life we’re looking for, unfamiliar as it may be.
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Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the rock star bullshit. None of the techs backstage care if you're David Bowie or the milkman. When you act like a jerk, they are completely unimpressed with the infantile display that you might think comes with your dubious status. They were there hours before you building the stage, and they will be there hours after you leave tearing it down. They should get your salary, and you should get theirs.
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I don’t really care if you’re a Republican or Democrat or you want to fight about the size of government. How about a government that just works? Put your tax dollar in and get a return out the other end.
