Jan Schakowsky Quotes
I've seen the impact of deportation in my district. It is heartbreaking to see families torn apart for no good reason.
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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
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To me, the funnest part of wrestling is evolving. If you stay the same all the time, you're eventually going to be left behind.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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I like that Barack got that job.
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I am happy in Paris.
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
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Food or the lack thereof can, at times, be coping mechanisms for people. While this isn't the best approach to good health, it's a part of people's realities. And it is nothing to be ashamed of.
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When you have a voice, you also have a moral obligation to use that voice for good.
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Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is reached on their deportation. However, such detention must always be subject to time limits and court review.
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Whenever there is a big game and people don't think I can do it, I always play my hardest, and now it has become a part of me.
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I've seen the impact of deportation in my district. It is heartbreaking to see families torn apart for no good reason.
