Gina Raimondo Quotes
I’m going to ask one question for everything that comes across my desk, which is, ‘How is this going to create jobs?’
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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A designer is like a doctor for a woman. He has a specific job, and if he is doing it well, he will have the gratitude of the woman for the rest of his life.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'
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I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
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He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison.
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I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
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Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.
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I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.
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To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness.
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He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.
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Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
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A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm goneAnd I can't question how or when or why when I'm goneCan't live proud enough to die when I'm goneSo I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here.
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Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and things like Social Security, but I've always been a civil rights advocate across the board. That's how I was raised.
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I’m going to ask one question for everything that comes across my desk, which is, ‘How is this going to create jobs?’
