Jan Schakowsky Quotes
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
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I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
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We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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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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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
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There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.
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The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.
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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?
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Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.
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The best way to earn a fortune in America is to already have one.
