J. B. Pritzker Quotes
My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
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I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
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A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
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Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.
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I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.
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I believe in that gladiatorial mind-set. I love it.
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The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
