Gina Raimondo Quotes
During my four years as treasurer, we restructured our pension system, cutting the state’s unfunded liability almost by half and putting our retirement system on stronger footing.
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At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time.
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I have confidence in mining. I see exciting opportunities in it.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.
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Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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I think prom is just about enjoying yourself.
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A heart makes a good home for the friend.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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Sometimes I just get over-excited. I see the pitch and I think, 'I have to get this wicket.' When I am just looking to bowl, I am calm and composed, and most of the time I get it right. The ball lands where I want it to.
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The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.
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We make butterflies by feeding caterpillars, not by trying to paste wings on them. Kids need to like themselves the way they are, and we can help them develop a positive self-image.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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I think what happens is, people do just want to see you as a glamour doll that's put up on screen, but I guess it's how you see yourself.
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Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.
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You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.
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During my four years as treasurer, we restructured our pension system, cutting the state’s unfunded liability almost by half and putting our retirement system on stronger footing.
