J. B. Pritzker Quotes
Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.J. B. Pritzker
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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.
Saffron Aldridge -
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Carl Sagan -
Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
Nancy Gibbs -
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.
Flume -
Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.
Daniel Barenboim
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman -
My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.
Daisy Ridley -
You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
Sam J. Jones -
Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
Fran Lebowitz -
In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
Zhu Rongji -
My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.
Ted Lindsay
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I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.
Mandy Patinkin -
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.
Lao Tzu -
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.
A. R. Rahman -
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
Jackie Kennedy -
If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.
Wayne Rogers -
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.
Vicki Lawrence
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As a teenager growing up in the suburbs of Washington, I ritually watched the Sunday-morning political talk shows with my family. We parsed and argued and jeered at the screen as national figures delivered careful, poll-tested talking points.
Anand Giridharadas -
It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits.
John F. Kennedy -
It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.
Dave Eggers -
I remember the first single I ever bought. I think it was a terrible song called 'D.I.S.C.O.' by a band called Ottawan. It's a really fearless disco track from the '70s or early '80s.
Kristian Nairn -
The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether government works.
Barack Obama -
Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.
J. B. Pritzker