J. B. Pritzker Quotes
As an elected official, an advocate for children, and an educator, Glenn Poshard has always fought for what's right.
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The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.
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Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
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Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.
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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.
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Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.
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It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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I'm a total weirdo and have often felt like an outcast and a freak, and I love that. It makes things so much more exciting.
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It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.
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Advertising is the life of trade.
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Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.
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I can't picture myself being the people I always looked up to.
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It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.
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As an elected official, an advocate for children, and an educator, Glenn Poshard has always fought for what's right.
