Jan Schakowsky Quotes
In 1973, the Roe v. Wade decision concluded that women have a constitutionally protected right to safe and legal abortions. That landmark decision wasn't the beginning of women having abortions; it was the end of women dying from abortions.
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My favorite thing about playing a vampire is the stunts. It's just a new, fun thing to do. Especially as a girl, being able to be all dolled up in heels and little outfits and be able to kick boys' butts, I think it's a really fun, make-believe world to play.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.
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My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.
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I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
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Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.
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Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.
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Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell said?
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.
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Nobody escapes during Lisa Lampanelli's show.
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I think it's important to celebrate your successes. It's important to feel happy about them, but it's equally important to look forward to the next big move.
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What will people of the future think of us? Will they say, as Roger Williams said of the Massachusetts Indians, that we were wolves with the minds of men? Will they think that we resigned our humanity? They will have the right.
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In 1973, the Roe v. Wade decision concluded that women have a constitutionally protected right to safe and legal abortions. That landmark decision wasn't the beginning of women having abortions; it was the end of women dying from abortions.
