J. B. Pritzker Quotes
If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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The world is too violent right now.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.
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We decided to redefine the bottom line at Ben & Jerry's.
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The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.
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We can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.