J. B. Pritzker Quotes
Just because one happens to be wealthy, it doesn't mean you are naturally any good at building an investment operation that is world-class or successful.
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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Time magazine has selected their person of the year. Guess what, it's President-elect Barack Obama. Yeah, ironically, Ebony magazine announced their person of the year, and it's Ed Begley Jr.
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I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, 'Tough.'
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I was incredibly nervous about doing a period drama. I thought that to play period, you had to be English-looking and blonde and very well spoken, and have gone to drama school.
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A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
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Just because one happens to be wealthy, it doesn't mean you are naturally any good at building an investment operation that is world-class or successful.
