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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Say
  • Three

• There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Looking
  • Going

• 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
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Morning

• The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Universe
  • Seems
  • Neither

• 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
  • Man
  • Interesting
  • Politics

• 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
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Knowledge
  • Notes
  • Concert

• And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • May
  • Man
  • Hero

• My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Trying
  • Pretty
  • Knowledge

• You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • Career
  • You
  • Reach

• Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children
  • Fun
  • Easy

• In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • New
  • Circumstances
  • Course

• My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Being
  • Boat
  • Rocking

• I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Find
  • Happen
  • Wait

• 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
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• 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
  • Mind
  • Doing
  • Start

• The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Time
  • Money
  • Love

• If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • You
  • Better
  • Yourself

• The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Business
  • Man
  • Yourself

• And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal tie.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Science
  • Fall
  • Garden

• Goethe said, 'The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing'; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: 'I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary.' These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Up
  • Different
  • Single

• When you consider your choices-heart disease, colon cancer, plus-size pants, melting ice caps, gale force storms, and animal suffering vs. good health, energy, a trim physique, a livable planet, compassion, and tasty, diverse foods-it's clear that going vegetarian is an excellent choice as we move toward living a more conscious life.

  

  Kathy Freston
  • Life
  • Good
  • Heart

• I'm telling you, there is a lot of power in being unapologetic.

  

  Dax Shepard
  • Power

• Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Health
  • Single
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