Bruce Rauner Quotes
Voters want conflicting things. They want a lot of government spending, but they don't want higher taxes.
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
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Sometimes art is ahead of revolution.
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All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.
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When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.
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Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.
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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
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Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin.
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My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.
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I am in love with all the characters I have played. And it is impossible to choose the best.
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I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
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Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads.
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My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.
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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
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No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
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I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three years of my mother's life. She was in a care facility that was devoted to just people with memory-loss issues. I found those people engaging and generous in ways that I had not imagined.
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Bachata is expensive to produce because of all of the instruments.
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My mom and I were super close when I was a kid, her and I sort of ran off from her ex-husband. It wasn't such a good time for us and I remember listening to The Distillers with her. One time I actually asked her, 'Mom, can I shave my head into a mohawk?'
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Voters want conflicting things. They want a lot of government spending, but they don't want higher taxes.
