Jan Schakowsky Quotes
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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In the U.S., search engines are king. That is because everyone already knows what they are looking for. Brands have been around for a long time.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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I'm the kind of guy who always pushes really hard.
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To adapt a play into a movie, you have to change it.
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The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.
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I really want to keep modelling, but it's not my number one goal in life. But it's so fun. I love doing it; it's just that - it's not like I just want to be a model when I'm older.
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We have been so consumed with seemingly objective discussions of politics, tactics, weapons, dollars and casualties. This is the language of sterility.
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One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'
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I really would love to take a big break and not be photographed, not perform.
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Listen to John Coltrane. When he plays 'A Love Supreme,' that guy is totally into himself.
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Every American must be guaranteed dignity and independence in their retirement.
