J. B. Pritzker Quotes
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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Practices were tough.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.
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I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.
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If we human beings learn to see the intricacies that bind one part of a natural system to another and then to us, we will no longer argue about the importance of wilderness protection, or over the question of saving endangered species, or how human communities must base their economic futures - not on short-term exploitation - but on long-term, sustainable development.
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The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.
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Working with women survivors of war has taught me that we need to listen to women's perspectives on war in order to understand how to effectively rebuild a country, a community and a family.
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Illinois has the opportunity to lead the country in providing more affordable health care options to its citizens.
