J. B. Pritzker Quotes
Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
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Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
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My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.
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I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
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The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
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If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.
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The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.
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If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely breaks the connection between human feeling and the object portrayed, the kite string has been broken. I try to keep the line unbroken.
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There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.
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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
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I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.
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Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.
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Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.
