Bruce Rauner Quotes
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about myself, I'm like, 'blah blah blah blah.'
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.
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I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.
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The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher.
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We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.
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My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'
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I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
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I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
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Normally, in the presence of radiation, communication links fail. But with autonomous robots, you don't need communications.
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What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.
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At least I can say that I'm honest.
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We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.
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I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with.
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There's little kids on trains coming up to me, singing my theme song, and they can barely walk.
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Findings from thirty years of research on life satisfaction show that happiness requires having clear-cut goals in life that give us a sense of purpose and direction. When we make progress toward satisfying our most cherished needs, goals, and wishes in the sixteen areas of life that contribute to contentment, we create well-being. Our research also shows that when we make progress toward attaining goals in one area of life, we raise our overall life satisfaction in other areas because of the potent “spillover” effect.
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I always had really long swimmer's arms. The last to totally go is always my thighs and butt, but my old body is there somewhere.
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Since I tend to be pretty competitive and find that others on my team enjoy contests and team competitions, I thought a good way to improve feedback would be to create a way to reward the comments and ideas that actually change our company for the better.
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Computers can do better than ever what needn’t be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly. (p. 109)
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I just want the state fixed, and I just want to do the right thing for the taxpayers.
