Jan Schakowsky Quotes

If we can spend over $3 trillion on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, surely we can find the money to meet the long-term needs of our people.

Jan Schakowsky

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• I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Worry

• Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.

  

  Ursus Wehrli
  • Same
  • Situation
  • Turn

• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Carry

• Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Awesome
  • Dinner
  • Bread

• The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • World
  • Business
  • Own

• Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Business
  • Break
  • Laws

• Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Poetry

• The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.

  

  Larry King
  • Life
  • Business
  • Royal

• I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Waiting

• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Fast
  • Cricket
  • Village

• Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Love
  • Problem
  • Trust

• In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Boy
  • Living

• Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.

  

  Becky G
  • Real
  • Love
  • Artist

• I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • World
  • Theatre
  • Seeing

• No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Work
  • Down
  • Upside Down

• From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Look
  • Down
  • Heights

• But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Good
  • Think
  • Interesting

• I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Good
  • Political
  • Boy

• The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Look

• You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Character
  • Learn
  • Human

• It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are.

  

  Jim Cramer
  • Money
  • Power
  • Guy

• I am not merely satisfied in making money for myself, for I am endeavoring to provide employment for hundreds of women of my race. ... I want to say to every Negro woman present, don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!

  

  Sarah Breedlove
  • Up
  • Women
  • Money

• The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

  

  William Scranton
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Interest

• If we can spend over $3 trillion on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, surely we can find the money to meet the long-term needs of our people.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • People
  • Long
  • Money