Henry Paulson Quotes
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I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.
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Bermuda is not even tropical. The charm of the tropics - the heat, the chaos - is not there.
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I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer.
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You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.
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Gender is a key marker of power and powerlessness. Most of the structures of how our world works are biased in terms of men.
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I am really looking forward to driving another of my father's car at the show in Rotterdam.
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There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.
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I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.
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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
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The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.
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I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.
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I'm not looking to... I'd like to build my company and make a bigger company always, but I think in the behind the scenes arena is where I'd prefer to spend my time.
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It was actually the movie 'Rushmore' that made me first realize that I could try writing, but 'Cheers' is the best show ever. The writers on that show created a relationship that writers today still fail to rip off successfully: the Sam and Diane.
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Before I was an actor I was an apprentice jockey, and now I'm out there racing against boys, sort of the spokesperson for people over 50 that they can do it.
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The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.
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That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason.
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When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better.
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No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
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Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.
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It's challenges like this that require you to have experienced, competent people in the government, and... a President willing to listen.
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The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle, wry-mouthed, or back-handed. It is by turns bitter, agonized, and grotesque. Even in the hands of white composers it involuntarily reflects the half-forgotten suffering of the negro. Jazz has both white and black elements, and each in some respects has influenced the other. It's recent phase seems to throw the light of the white race's sophistication upon the anguish of the black.
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I didn't get the charm gene.
