Jan Schakowsky Quotes
From its onset, the labor movement has been at the forefront of the fight to improve working conditions and workplace safety. At the local level, knowing their union has their back gives workers the confidence and support they need to stand up and report harassment, poor working conditions, or workplace safety violations.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.
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I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
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The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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As fears about the energy and environmental crises reach a fever pitch, we're all searching for solutions. And one possibility is that we could fix everything if we'd just shrink our population back down to about 2 billion people - which would put us roughly where we were at 80 years ago.
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I don't like getting dressed up. It's hard because as a woman, as an actor, the whole world wants you to enjoy dressing up.
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I always feel to do mythological and horror shows you need to be terrific actors. I am not that good.
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Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
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I had fun doing both types of roles. Both are good. One day you laugh, and the next day you cry. That's how it is.
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From its onset, the labor movement has been at the forefront of the fight to improve working conditions and workplace safety. At the local level, knowing their union has their back gives workers the confidence and support they need to stand up and report harassment, poor working conditions, or workplace safety violations.
