Jan Schakowsky Quotes
We understand what President Trump means when he talks about taking the country back. He does not see America as a country of people from diverse backgrounds united around values of freedom and respect. In his 'American carnage' version of our country, immigrants and refugees are a threat.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!
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You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
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The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.'
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I've been a comedian for a long time so writing and performing is a big part of what I do. If anybody's doing comedy they should also work on writing.
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We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, let them do their work. Just get out of their way.
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I go through stages. Randomly, I'll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I'm extremely attracted to ambition and wit.
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We understand what President Trump means when he talks about taking the country back. He does not see America as a country of people from diverse backgrounds united around values of freedom and respect. In his 'American carnage' version of our country, immigrants and refugees are a threat.
