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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We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.
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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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Most of us can't even begin to imagine.
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Losing people makes you realize you've got to grab life - not put things off.
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To face this fact is to encounter one of the most demanding challenges in thinking about history: explaining how people in the past could have failed to see what seems so clear to us in retrospect. This is an imperative task but also a delicate and exacting one. On one hand, explanation can shade into excuse, on the other hand, passing judgment on the past can be a form of self-congratulation in the present.
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In Hollywood, there is another name for a woman's 40th birthday party, it's a retirement party.
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I want to help accelerate the evolution of the press because right now, newsrooms are cutting investigative journalists, and we need investigative journalists.
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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.
