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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I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.
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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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I can swear like a fishwife.
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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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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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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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Fundamentals make the market.
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Gabby Giffords deserves a vote. The families of Newtown deserve a vote. The families of Aurora deserve a vote. The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence - they deserve a simple vote.
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It feels good to give your fans something to feel good about.
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Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.
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The life changing moment for me what the first time I went to a war zone and that was Sierra Leone. I took two weeks, eleven years ago and I went. I wasn't an Ambassador or anything I just asked to go and I was allowed to go. It was like someone smacked me in the face.
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We like to invest in market leaders.
