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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
-
Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
-
I was unbelievably lucky.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
-
I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
-
Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
-
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!
-
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.
-
I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
-
I don't talk in ifs.
-
To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
-
I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.
-
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.
-
People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
-
And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
-
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.
-
I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt.
-
When you're coming from a place of living just to work, it's never as good as you want it to be. It's never as authentic.
-
There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
-
What my mom failed to understand was that I didn't even want long hair -- I needed long hair. And my desire for protracted, flowing locks had virtually nothing to do with fashion, nor was it a form of protest against the constructions of mainstream society. My motivation was far more philosophical. I wanted to rock.
-
There's always this joke that I say in Israel: people don't really have discussions; they just try to convince the other people that they are wrong or they are right - they just try to impose their opinion on the others. Sometimes I think it's easier to avoid talking about things and just make music.
-
We can afford to pay workers fairly, and it is the right thing to do. We also need equal pay for equal work.
