Jan Schakowsky Quotes
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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People take things so seriously.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
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There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.
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I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury, we had fire pits in the floor for heating, and rats everywhere, because they nested in the hay insulation.
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When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I would go to a friend's house. I connected my dad being there with fear.
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An important part of my job is listening to diverse points of view at all levels - from Millennials starting their careers... to women at the highest levels of leadership... to my own wife and daughter.
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The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.
