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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The thing that I do best is 'Be Here. Be Now'.
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Christianity will go.. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
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'Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.' p205
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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With a novel, no matter where I am in it, I'm fretting about it. Every time I write a book, it starts with great forward momentum. Then there seems to be a period where it slows down a bit, and other things intervene. Then I gain momentum.
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That’s the thing about terrorism – it works. Especially for the terrorists – they might not get what they want but it feels damn good trying.
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My greatest fear is failure.
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Americans firmly rejected Republican legislative efforts to repeal the ACA - only 17 percent supported it.
