Jan Schakowsky Quotes
There is no better way to improve wages and working conditions in our country than to support the right to unionize. Throughout our history, unions have improved the lives of millions of American families, grown the middle class, and pushed our economy forward.

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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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I've always felt like an outsider, whether in school or when I'm working or within the industry or just in society at large.
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Both economics and politics are false sciences.
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To awake from death is to die in peace.
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Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.
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Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.
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There is no better way to improve wages and working conditions in our country than to support the right to unionize. Throughout our history, unions have improved the lives of millions of American families, grown the middle class, and pushed our economy forward.