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 a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.
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When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.
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I have no time for it at all, when women just don't like women. I don't get it.
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He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even make himself stretch out his hand to switch on the light. The simple transition from intention to action seemed an unimaginable miracle.
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Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.
