J. B. Pritzker Quotes
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
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The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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It seems that for all of the artists signed to a major, there exists the same amount of artists that are struggling to break through to the surface within the label. I think, ideally, we'd end up with a very well connected competent indie team that will be along with us for the ride, however long that ride may be.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it.
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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I found people were telling stories to themselves without knowing it. It seemed to me that people were living a sort of small sermon that they believed in, but at the same time it was a fairy tale. Selfish desires, along with one or two highly suspect elevated thoughts. They secretly regard themselves as works of art, valuable in themselves.
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And since the day I left Milwaukee,Lyncheburg and Bourbon, FranceBeen makin' a fool out of folksJust like you,And helpin' white people dance.I am medicine and I am poison.I can help you up or make you fall.You had some of the best timesYou'll never remember with me...Alcohol.
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Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.
