J. B. Pritzker Quotes
When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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I was never that kid who used to brag about anything.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.
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The things we do to our children - most of the evil in the world is not done with bad intentions but with the best intentions ever.
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Who's going to do a better job of spending your money? You or the government?
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It's weird when people come up to me and know stuff about my life. That sort of creeps me out.
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I know it's like meant to be and stuff, but I have to wait, cause to truly love someone, you have to work out the things that need to be – and you have to be ready to love them and they, you.
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When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.
