Jan Schakowsky Quotes

I've fought to close the gender and racial pay gap for a very long time. One piece of advice I like to give whenever I'm speaking on the subject: if you want equal pay, join a union! I've never seen a union contract that pays women 79 cents to a man's dollar.

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• I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Words
  • Government
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• Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • World
  • Men
  • Woman

• My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
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• There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Universe
  • Chance

• I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Want
  • Black

• The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • War
  • Worst
  • Objectives

• It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Simple
  • Sound
  • Digital

• I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Think
  • Scary
  • Something

• Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Dark
  • Losing

• I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Truth
  • Song
  • Gift

• I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Play
  • Hand
  • Best

• We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • History
  • Culture
  • Literature

• I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Find
  • Same
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• Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Career
  • Wish

• Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Good
  • Day
  • Positive

• It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Fun
  • Role
  • Bull

• If I have some free time, I leave Paris with some books about the cinema. If I'm not filming, I'm watching films.

  

  Francois Truffaut
  • Time
  • Free
  • Paris

• I know when I used to chemically straighten mine, I did it because I wasn't comfortable with my natural hair. I thought it was too poofy, too kinky. So for me, personally, when I started wearing it natural, it felt like I was blossoming because I was letting go of all the dead hair and all the parts of me that had rejected my natural state.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Hair
  • Kinky

• We have a Gujarat State Wide Area Network. The optical fibre network. We are the largest in Asia, number one. We are number one in Asia. And we are second largest in the world. Can you image how we are using the technology?

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Technology

• I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water.

  

  Jane Campion
  • Work
  • Running
  • Water

• I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.

  

  Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • People
  • Long
  • Fear

• I've fought to close the gender and racial pay gap for a very long time. One piece of advice I like to give whenever I'm speaking on the subject: if you want equal pay, join a union! I've never seen a union contract that pays women 79 cents to a man's dollar.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
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