Jan Schakowsky Quotes

We have a choice: we can allow the growing disparity between rich and poor to continue unimpeded, or we can take action to budget responsibly and strengthen and expand the middle class. If we want this economy - and this country - to meet its full potential, the choice is simple.

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• Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Record
  • Often
  • Killer

• No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Long
  • Church
  • Religion

• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Loved
  • London
  • WIld

• Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • America
  • Better
  • Step

• I'm very competitive, and I want to win.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Want
  • Win
  • Competitive

• Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Education
  • Party
  • Investment

• I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Hate
  • Always
  • Trials

• When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Mother
  • Day
  • Air

• But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Movies
  • Old
  • Hollywood

• The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • American
  • America
  • Value

• I do love my wine. I'd opt to drink my calories rather than eat them every time, so I cut out the breads, potatoes, pastas, cheeses and desserts in an effort to get my healthy angel and unhealthy demon to compromise.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Healthy
  • Angel
  • Compromise

• Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.

  

  Sam Barry
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• Our economy's growth functions by inciting us to produce more and more with each passing year. In turn, we require cultural forms to enable us to sort through the glut, and our rituals are once again directed towards the immaterial, towards quality and not quantity.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Quality
  • Growth
  • Year

• The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.

  

  Cam
  • People
  • Music
  • Business

• Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Diva

• The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Trouble
  • Year
  • Artists

• But when they needed love or help or had a problem of any kind, they could always go to Roselle because she was always there for them. That was not always the case with me.

  

  Perry Como
  • Love
  • Help
  • Support

• We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly.

  

  G. Richard Wagoner Jr.
  • Believe
  • Practice

• 'Lucky we know the forest so well, or we might get lost,' said Rabbit half an hour later, and he gave the careless laugh which you give when you know the Forest so well that you can't get lost.Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.'Pooh!' he whispered.'Yes, Piglet?''Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. 'I just wanted to be sure of you.'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Up
  • Lost
  • Forest

• Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids... the baby boom generation were all in the area. It was just a really great place.

  

  Jerry Doyle
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• To have a part that is written for you certainly helps an actor.

  

  A. J. Bowen
  • You
  • Actor
  • Certainly

• We have a choice: we can allow the growing disparity between rich and poor to continue unimpeded, or we can take action to budget responsibly and strengthen and expand the middle class. If we want this economy - and this country - to meet its full potential, the choice is simple.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
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  • Growing
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