Jan Schakowsky Quotes
Immigration reform is for those thousands of people in my district and the millions of people across the country who want nothing more than to work hard, provide for their families, and reach for the American Dream.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.
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I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
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Matthew 7:16 tells us that by their fruits you shall know them. Donald Trump's life has borne fruit, fruit that has provided jobs to multitudes of people in addition to the many he has helped with his generosity.
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A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content.
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Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem.
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It's just this feeling of when you're a kid, you have these ideas about the world and about people in your life that don't always hold up as you get older and start to realise that things are more complex than you might've realised. That's always a big part of a coming-of-age story.
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What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain development actually slows down and is affected. So this is not just a short-term impact.
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Immigration reform is for those thousands of people in my district and the millions of people across the country who want nothing more than to work hard, provide for their families, and reach for the American Dream.
