Jan Schakowsky Quotes
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.
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The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.
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Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
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To adapt a play into a movie, you have to change it.
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I expect a tough, hard fight. Liam Smith is coming to win.
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
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Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing along while I performed in Pune.
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When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been since I was barely a teenager, that since it didn't look like the poetry was going where I wanted, I might try writing a science fiction story. I did, and the first story I ever wrote was 'The Great American Economy.'
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We're going to be selling our product to the American consumer. We want to have Americans who understand American consumers.
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Much to cast down, much to build, much to restore.
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I get mad like anybody else does, but being able to laugh about getting mad is very healthy, and my kids know that.
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We must ensure American workers get the long-overdue raise they deserve.
