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Michael Bloomberg
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: February 14
Actor
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Former Mayor Of New York City
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Michael Rubens Bloomberg
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If I remember, Russia, 20 or 30 years ago, you'd get shot trying to leave. Today, Russian tourists are all over the world. You have Russian oligarchs with big yachts all over the world.
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If you think of all the publicity about the terrible tragedy of Virginia Tech, we have a Virginia Tech in this country every day. It's just spread across 50 states.
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You're going to see a million people here who have the courage to come and not let terrorists win, and that's exactly what we should all do.
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I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find a way to get on the agenda.
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The Russian economy is way down because of the price of oil, and because the USSR was a big chunk of it.
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We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.
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Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either.
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If you don't encounter setbacks in your career, if you don't have doubts and disappointments , let me tell you, you're not dreaming big enough.
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Getting the job done has been the basis for the success my company has achieved.
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You have to understand, we have better communications and better transportation, so people know what's available elsewhere and can get a message out, and you can move things. And you [can] say that the economy is more unpredictable.
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If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.
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The governor of Texas was a real climate change, well, skeptic would be a nice way of phrasing it. Still, though, Texas is a leader in renewables. So, what I care about is what politicians are actually doing, not what they are saying.
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I don't know why you should be proud of something. It doesn't make you any better or worse. You are what you are.
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In science, a path that turns out to be a dead end is very useful because you don't devote resources to focusing on that you go elsewheres.
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I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.
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America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.
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Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.
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Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.
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I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.
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What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?
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