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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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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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 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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A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is of necessity repulsive. It represents a bit of human nature - a good bit, of course, but a bit only - in disproportionate, unnatural and revolting prominence.
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Yemen is an essential partner of the United States of America and the international community in combating terror.
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I had always been fascinated by the bizarre world of cards. It was a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments were meted out immediately.
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Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," Yossarian answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence.
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All through my twenties, I spent more time worrying what I didn't have than thinking about what I did have. I wished that I was taller, had longer legs, slimmer hips, a smaller bottom, even straighter hair.
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We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
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Voters want conflicting things. They want a lot of government spending, but they don't want higher taxes.
