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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Where love is, there God is also.
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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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Hills are unpleasant, so I like to get them over with as quickly as possible.
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The two things I use the most are the MacBook Air and my iPhone. Those are my two most-used gadgets that are dented, scratched and smashed.
Biz Stone -
Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.
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It was all very well, the alethiometer telling her to be truthful, but she knew what would happen if she told the whole truth. She had to tread carefully and just avoid direct lies.
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I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.
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The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.
