Bruce Rauner Quotes
We've become a collectivist economy in Illinois. It's crushing us. And no problem is going to get fixed unless we bring more economic freedom into the state. And I believe that very passionately.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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I was a horrible athlete.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.
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The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.
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The King has a right to make political remarks. He is a Thai citizen and has his rights and freedoms under the Constitution. Each of you is under the Constitution, and so is the King. I am using my freedom under the Constitution.
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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We've become a collectivist economy in Illinois. It's crushing us. And no problem is going to get fixed unless we bring more economic freedom into the state. And I believe that very passionately.
