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Gina Raimondo Quotes

Don't ignore big problems, and don't try to pretend that problems are smaller than they are.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 17, 1971

Topics

Problems Ignore Try Pretend Big

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

Family Birthday Good Son Children

It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.

Man Value Direction Possibilities Go

I think when you're talking about marriage equality and race, people very quickly start to get into their political corners: their ideology comes to the forefront, and they get into this platform argument that they're used to making, which really doesn't have anything to do with the day-to-day basics of what is being talked about.

Marriage Equality People Start Think

When Thug hears a song, he knows how the whole shape of the thing goes. He can nudge the whole frame to the left to make it offbeat and sound how he wants it to sound.

Song Thug Sound Frame Shape Left

Simply because I did not fit in their mold of what an independent working woman should be, the media and political elite have sought to relegate my sense of civic responsibility to mere sideshow antics.

Responsibility Woman Political Media

If a transporter could send me from the bed with the dogs watching crappy TV to the stage five minutes before I go on, then immediately back to bed, I would love it.

Love Me Back Bed Go Watching

It's a huge responsibility writing about people who are alive. It's the thing about writing that keeps me awake at night: dramatising real-life events with real people.

Responsibility People Me Writing

We were empty nesters, our last-born child having departed for Duke. Meredith decided we needed a dog to fill the vacuum. She heard about a litter in Colorado sired by Chopper, the legendary avalanche dog at the top of Aspen Mountain.

Dog Mountain Child Colorado She Top

When I listen to music, there's usually some aspect of that music that I like, and that's what I take and try to bring into my own music. Bringing in other musicians to collaborate with is a good way for me to test out new ways or make music that I might have not discovered on my own.

Good Music Me Musicians New Test

When we complain to Egypt's Western allies about whichever autocrat is in power, we are asked, 'But who is the alternative?' It is a question designed to frustrate.

Power Egypt Question Complain Allies

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Tongue Talk Listen More Two Ears

From the outside, there's a lot of glitz. They see you on the red carpet, but they don't see what it takes to get there.

Courtney B. Vance

Red You Outside See Red Carpet Get

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