Jan Schakowsky Quotes
Working families spend about 90 percent of their income on consumption - buying stuff. The rich spend less than 45 percent.Jan Schakowsky
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
Adam Garcia -
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 -
It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
Barbra Streisand -
My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
Magic Johnson -
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Samuel Butler -
I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
Kate Hudson
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
Harold Coffin -
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Vaclav Havel -
As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.
Taylor Wilson -
As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.
Victor Cruz -
My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.
Gary Locke -
I will say this about the Miz: Even though I don't like his wrestling style, he is a very hard worker. I have a huge amount of respect for him, and I want him to do well.
Daniel Bryan
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
Umberto Eco -
I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.
Carly Fiorina -
In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
Jack Steinberger -
The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.
Harry A. Blackmun -
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Oliver Goldsmith -
I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.
Malala Yousafzai
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Wherever you go at SXSW, there you are standing in line. Or watching other people stand in line.
Kara Swisher -
Wherever possible, I try to see things from the other side of the dividing line and to read civilisation 'against the grain.'
Mary Beard -
I am merely a conduit, a kind of big hairy tool. I am just a plastic funnel connected to a Moog.
Vangelis Aphrodite's Child -
If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
Miss Emily had an intellect you could slice logs with.
Kazuo Ishiguro -
Working families spend about 90 percent of their income on consumption - buying stuff. The rich spend less than 45 percent.
Jan Schakowsky