J. B. Pritzker Quotes
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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Get rid of the preferences and the special deductions and the loopholes... and invest in getting the tax rate to a competitive level so we stop seeing companies move off shore.
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
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Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
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Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.
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You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.
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Russia and China, which have embraced autocratic capitalism, have attracted admirers and emulators by the seeming success of their strongman rule.
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I dubbed for 'Nannaku Prematho' because in that film, I was doing a London-based character, and even if some mistake happens with pronunciation, people would excuse it.
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We like to invest in market leaders.
