Jan Schakowsky Quotes
We can afford to pay workers fairly, and it is the right thing to do. We also need equal pay for equal work.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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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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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
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When you put money directly to a problem, it makes a good headline. It makes a good campaign slogan. You get to claim that you've engaged in these activities within an election cycle. But certain investments take longer than an election cycle.
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The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
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They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was between us. That was private. I'll always love him.
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Most poor families are living completely unassisted in a private rental market, devoting most of their income to housing. When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability than the result of personal irresponsibility.
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Singer/songwriters spend two or three years making an album, and then it goes up for sale and everybody pirates it and you don't make any money. Whereas, writing a film score you still get presented with a paycheck.
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We can afford to pay workers fairly, and it is the right thing to do. We also need equal pay for equal work.
