Jan Schakowsky Quotes
I will continue to do all that I can to ensure and enhance worker protections, including the right to bargain collectively.
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The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.
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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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Sometimes you're famous before you're good.
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
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I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!
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My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.
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For years, Islamists and other extremists have taken advantage of grievances of Muslims in Britain and have successfully identified ways to integrate them under one 'Islamic' banner.
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The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace.
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My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author.
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American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.
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Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.
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Men like Jackson were so upright and honest-seeming, but Hooch knew that there wasn’t no such thing as a good man, just a man who wasn’t bought yet, or wasn’t in deep enough trouble, or didn’t have the guts to reach out and take what he wanted. That’s all that virtue ever boiled down to, so far as Hooch ever saw in his life.
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Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.
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You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too.
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It's nice to compliment people on what they're wearing, but don't make insincere compliments.
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I don't like sleeping in a different place every night, but I do like meeting new people.
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She didn’t need to be received as nobility to be noble.
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Lifetime dogs intersect with our lives with particular impact; they're dogs we love in especially powerful, sometimes inexplicable, ways.
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I will continue to do all that I can to ensure and enhance worker protections, including the right to bargain collectively.
