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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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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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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The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.
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My thing is, everything I do, I leave it out there and let the chips fall where they may.
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My dream is to be in a place where I can do shows internationally and have music be the only thing I'm doing.
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It is a rare person who can pierce the veil between ordinarly life, consumed with matters of physical survival, and pursuit of the empowered path of purpose and meaning unless he or she is motivated by a crisis. Most often we require the failure of some system of power that we rely on before we take action.
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I feel strongly that degrees are really valuable to people, and having MOOCs allow for credit down the line will increase the number of students with the confidence and wherewithal to complete degrees.
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People voted with their hearts as they were remembering the father.
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Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires to become a dentist and that is that. Southerners have trouble ruling out the possible. What happens to a... man to whom all things seem possible and every course of action open? Nothing of course.
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Engaging in diplomacy with Iran and putting an end to their nuclear weapons program was the right thing to do.
