Jan Schakowsky Quotes
As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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'Coexist' was tough to make.
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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.
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I've always been one to throw caution to the wind, and my motto has been, 'Never have a dull moment.' Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't, but I don't think I'd have it much differently.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!
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I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.
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The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.
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Is it ever worthwhile to buy a review? Not in my opinion. With independent paid review services, quality can be a problem; plus, there are plenty of non-professional book review venues out there that will review for free.
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While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.
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If Senator Kennedy is elected President of the United States, the government of Chile will take the necessary measures.
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John Kenneth Galbraith doesn't get enough praise. The Affluent Society is a great insight, and has become so much a part of our understanding of contemporary capitalism that we forget where it began. It's like reading Hamlet and deciding it's full of quotations.
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It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
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...Louis Fourteenth Street furniture...
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Mo: Ginger, how can you think about sex at a time like this? Madmen are about to destroy the earth!Ginger: Can you think of a better time? I don't know about you, girl, but I want to have a G-spot orgasm before Armageddon hits.
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A pigeon a day keeps the natives away
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Your development as a person should coincide with your development in all aspects of your life.
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My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.
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I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, 'Hey, sorry about the autism, but here's a step-by-step list on what to do next.' But doctors don't do that. They say 'sorry' and move you along.
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If something brilliant comes along but I really feel like it's too old for me - that I'm not gonna have the experience it takes - I'm not gonna do it. Even if it's "a big mistake for my career".
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As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.
