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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I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter.
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Bitcoin is valuable as a currency because of the economic efficiencies the bitcoin network is already creating as transactions flow over it. As with the Internet, more applications will flourish which will make the bitcoin network, and thus bitcoin as a currency, valuable.
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I'd like to focus on my life on creating new medicines for people who are suffering from rare disease.
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There is no way that anyone who - besides the folks that want to plain ignore facts - there's no way that anyone can say that by building that wall we are not going to accomplish a more secure border. It's just proven. We can do this.
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Make sure that you always follow your heart and your gut, and let yourself be who you want to be, and who you know you are. And don't let anyone steal your joy.
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Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.
