J. B. Pritzker Quotes
Setting a tone of inclusiveness and ensuring protection for all begins at the top, whether from the White House or the State House.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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By and large, small companies don't want to settle for part-time employees over full-time positions.
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We will not lose this election for lack of money.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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I think recharging is important, absolutely. Every now and then, you need maybe a couple of weeks to just chill out and let your emotions balance themselves out a little bit.
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As you read the Word of God today, read it with expectancy and anticipation for the changes it will make in you.
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Chaos in nature is immediately challenging and forces a good artist to impose some type of order on his or her perception of a site.
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There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the movers came up on a house full of children. The mom had passed away, and the children had just gone on living there. And the sheriff executed the eviction order - moved the kids' stuff out on the street on a cold, rainy day.
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Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.
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It's still incredibly hard. Not just honing my craft but kicking down doors, getting my work published. Early on, I could have wallpapered my house with all the rejection letters sent my way. I put thousands of hours and pages into four novels that never saw the light of day.
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Setting a tone of inclusiveness and ensuring protection for all begins at the top, whether from the White House or the State House.
