Jan Schakowsky Quotes
At some point in our life, each of us is very likely to be a care getter or a care giver or both.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
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Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
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I will never, most likely, be good at the piano, but thanks to it, I will never forget the humbling, infuriating, necessary slowness of progress in any artistic endeavor.
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Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
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I am cocky in prediction, I am confident in preparation but I am always humble in victory or defeat.
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When I'm saying hysteria, I'm referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria.
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The moment we turn over the soil we start poisoning it and we go on poisoning it all the way through... and there's probably not a river in the United States that doesn't have pesticide poisoning in it. The fish are dying. The seas are getting polluted. All of these things are happening. The rain forests are going. That's what the context is.
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At some point in our life, each of us is very likely to be a care getter or a care giver or both.
