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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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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It was easy to get the offers for the good-looking vapid dude. I guess that's my power alley.
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I have a collection of lucky pennies, and I like to carry some of them with me. So far, they seem to be working!
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If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house.
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I like to go out for dinner in Belfast with my friends, I like to work on the house. I like working on music.
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You can put the greatest seafood restaurant next to an average steak house in an urban area, and that steak house will do more business than the seafood place. If you go to the water, you can put an average seafood place next to the greatest steak house, and people are going to eat seafood.
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The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.
