Jan Schakowsky Quotes
The reality is that life expectancy has not improved for everyone. In fact, in some cases, life expectancy is actually decreasing.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
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Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
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I married a woman who's not going to take anything. No slips. She's very accountable, and she holds me very accountable.
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Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.
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Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.
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Las ideas no necesitan ni de las armas, en la medida en que sean capaces de conquistar a las grandes masas. (Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.)
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The reality is that life expectancy has not improved for everyone. In fact, in some cases, life expectancy is actually decreasing.
