Jason Kander Quotes
You don't get to recall a senator just because you don't like her or just because you want the seat for your own party.
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When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
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Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple.
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
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In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.
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It's nice to have a lot of people in the field. Independent, third party, Libertarian, Reform and other party candidates can do what they want to do. I welcome them to the race.
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Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.
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We are thinking through the medium and long-term needs here.
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The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand.
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You don't get to recall a senator just because you don't like her or just because you want the seat for your own party.
