Bruce Rauner Quotes
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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Retiring is the easy way out.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
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I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.
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I try to stay ahead of things, if you know what I mean. I take the money I make and reinvest it.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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I only want to be the best that I can be.
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I won't say that women belong in the kitchen, but they don't belong in the dugout.
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I'm very thoughtful and disciplined with my money.
