J. B. Pritzker Quotes
Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
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If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.
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Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
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I have to clean my room and unload the dishwasher, wash the pans, and feed the dogs.
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I hate Alzheimer's. It is one of the most awful things because, here is a loved one, this is the woman or man that you have loved for 20, 30, 40 years, and suddenly, that person is gone. They're gone. They are gone.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I had a brilliant time working with the entire cast and crew at 'Return To Nim's Island.' It's amazing how, after working on a film, you really become a family, and you build these really special bonds together.
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My kids hear me behind my door, giggling like an idiot, and they roll their eyes at the blatant indignity of it all.
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I have this fringe theory that I've sort of stress-tested a little bit - the more polarising and popular a case is, the more likely an acquittal.
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We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.
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I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.
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Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
