Gina Raimondo Quotes
Almost every day, people will say to me some version of, ‘You’re so much nicer in real life.’ I guess I come across as not nice.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines.
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Tailoring was considered to be a world that was very traditional, and basically going out of fashion. Fashion designers did not have a real link with tailoring or tradition, so I fused the two worlds together.
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In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know.
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When people have good energy I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes me very happy.
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That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.
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Almost every day, people will say to me some version of, ‘You’re so much nicer in real life.’ I guess I come across as not nice.
