J. B. Pritzker Quotes
The idea of investing in entrepreneurs who are building things from scratch, where I can participate in their dream, was very, very exciting to me.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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I like things simple.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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I am an economist, not an astrologer.
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I'd love to make a thriller.
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I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.
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If you love animals, don't eat them.
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It would be flattering to be thought of as someone who celebrated life.
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The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India.
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Wine buffs write and talk as though the food and wine will be in your mouth at the same time, that one is there to be poured over the other. This is bullshit. Gustatory enjoyment comes from food and wine and cigars of your liking. So far no one has said that a Monte Cristo is the only cigar to smoke after Armagnac, Romeo and Juliet after Calvados ... but the time may yet come.
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The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.
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The idea of investing in entrepreneurs who are building things from scratch, where I can participate in their dream, was very, very exciting to me.
