Jan Schakowsky Quotes
Americans firmly rejected Republican legislative efforts to repeal the ACA - only 17 percent supported it.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp.
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
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When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
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Oh yeah, I know Johnnie Bassett. We were part of that whole thing.
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Stop taking pictures and start experiencing life.
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I think that in any role you have, whether TV or film, it's hard to do comedy and drama within one story.
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We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
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There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go.
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When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.
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I never think about the knockouts. I go into every fight, do my work, and none of that stuff puts pressure on me at all.
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We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.
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There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.
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What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
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You have to be able to tolerate what you don't necessarily like so you can be free.
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My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.
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The thing that I do best is 'Be Here. Be Now'.
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Today I have so much to do: I must kill memory once and for all, I must turn my soul to stone, I must learn to live again- Unless ... Summer's ardent rustling Is like a festival outside my window.
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A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be a winning marathon runner. Serendipity and blind faith faith in yourself won't hurt a thing. All the bastards in the world will snicker and sneer because they haven't the talent to zip up their flies by themselves. To hell with them, particularly the critics. Stand in there, son, no matter how badly you are battered and hurt.
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Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?
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Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment.
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Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself.
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Americans firmly rejected Republican legislative efforts to repeal the ACA - only 17 percent supported it.
