J. B. Pritzker Quotes
There's a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood - that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services.
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Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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Amateurs hope, professionals work.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
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When I first started YouTubeing, the idea was, 'Oh, YouTube is going to be a stepping stone to get to other places,' and I just totally don't agree with that. I think YouTube is amazing. The digital space is amazing.
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I've only fallen in love once, and once was enough for me, but that doesn't mean my eyes won't wander, and it doesn't mean I won't flirt!
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I do feel a need as a Mormon to speak out against things that are hurting people.
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It's important to know when to take your time and not overspend and overdo things, of course. That's why you get things that can be dressed in a thousand different ways.
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I have always loved the college atmosphere - sometimes too much, which is why I spent so long at LSU.
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There's a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood - that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services.
