J. B. Pritzker Quotes

Rauner stands silent as Trump assaults our basic rights.

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• I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Life
  • Important
  • Opportunity

• Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Know
  • Personality
  • Survival

• Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Cloud

• I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Smell
  • Gardening

• It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• I love dessert. All kinds. But there's something about ice cream that makes me happy. I am drawn to its simplicity. I am perplexed by the endless supply of constantly growing flavor options. And I am always in the mood for sprinkles and a sugar cone.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Growing

• The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Friends
  • Relationship
  • Wife

• I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Way
  • Feel
  • Any

• It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Gift

• A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Evidence
  • Defense
  • Funeral

• Russia, their number one client in the Middle East is Syria; that is their foothold in the Middle East. They want to have influence there.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Want
  • Influence
  • Client

• From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Country
  • Business
  • Experience

• People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Truth
  • You

• In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Rare

• Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Nothing
  • Succeed
  • Without

• I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Very
  • Talk
  • Well

• The main interest of most members of the Christian Coalition is the breakdown of the family. I think that's our biggest problem, and if the whole country was as concerned and active in issues of the family as members of the Christian Coalition are, we'd probably be better off as a country.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Country
  • Family
  • Problem

• I only started to understand the concept of "environmental protection" 14 years ago. I was an ambassador for a charity event, and the staff told me that the consumption of disposable chopsticks in China, per year, could result in the devastation of unimaginable acres of forest.

  

  Li Bingbing
  • Charity
  • Forest
  • Environmental

• I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Kids
  • Rock
  • Star

• People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Literature

• In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• Rauner stands silent as Trump assaults our basic rights.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Trump
  • Rights
  • Silent