Jan Schakowsky Quotes
Engaging in diplomacy with Iran and putting an end to their nuclear weapons program was the right thing to do.
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The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to.
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HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'
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The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
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I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.
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I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.
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In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, modernity, tradition, East and West - which allows for a kind of intellectual development not available anywhere else.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
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There is a long history of founders returning to companies and doing great things. Founders are able to set the vision for their companies with an authority no one else can.
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Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.
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To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
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Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.
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Every policy officer is sworn to protect life, and, under the most extreme circumstances, to take life. It is a staggering responsibility that requires officers to make split second decisions.
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People want development. Not everyone knows what it means. Same as jobs. Not everyone knows what a job is, but people want jobs.
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A person is born with a liking for profit.
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Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.
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From a pretty early age, I developed an interest in travel. I told my parents I wanted to live abroad, and they said, 'Well, you have to have money to do those things.'
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If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and his play 'The Crucible' analysed the hearings in the context of a previous American mass psychosis, the Salem witch trials.
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I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.
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The financial crisis involved significant failures in the functioning, regulation, and supervision of OTC derivatives markets.
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Engaging in diplomacy with Iran and putting an end to their nuclear weapons program was the right thing to do.
