Jan Schakowsky Quotes
The Republican 'Work Harder for Less' budget leaves more Americans even worse off than they are today. The 'People's Budget' makes the critical investments needed to give the American people exactly what they deserve - economic security and peace of mind - and helps grow our economy from the middle out.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such as in Times Square or near major bridges and tunnels. It would be more troubling to learn, however, that the government has focused cameras on the front doors of our homes just to keep track of our comings and goings.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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I'm the kind of guy who always pushes really hard.
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Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
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There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman.
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You cannot have a government for and by the people if it is not represented by all of the people.
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Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.
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A man should demand much from himself, but little from others. When you meet a man of worth, think how you may attain to his excellence. When you meet an unworthy one, then look within and examine yourself.
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The Republican 'Work Harder for Less' budget leaves more Americans even worse off than they are today. The 'People's Budget' makes the critical investments needed to give the American people exactly what they deserve - economic security and peace of mind - and helps grow our economy from the middle out.
