J. B. Pritzker Quotes
If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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The world is too violent right now.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to be marketed well. It's the package that sells - the songs, action, actors, etc.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.
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Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
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I know the book on me is I'm bombastic and over-the-top, but I think people who know me know that's a part of who I am, but it's not who I am.
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You know, you want to be outrageous when you're young, so all the young people say, "Oooh . . ." Now my tactics are different.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
