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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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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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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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.
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As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GOP for my outspoken criticism of their extremist attacks on public education and voting rights, to name just two examples.
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My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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It wasn't until I went to college and met different people from different areas of life - and then went to San Francisco and met people who really knew who the hell they were - that I kind of caught up in a hurry.
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Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer-and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
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I have always loved the Bay Area. I spent a lot of time in the Bay Area. I started my career there. That's a huge part of the excitement for me.
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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.
