J. B. Pritzker Quotes
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.
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I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
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I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think blockchain can disrupt. We picked six of them to focus on.
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Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.
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I still have a young attitude.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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The only thing better than going to Pitcairn in the first place, is going again.
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Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers.
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“I then swept the crumbs into my palm and opened one of the empty drawers and poured them in. I was working on the theory that if I collected enough crumbs, eventually I could make my own Twix. It's good to have a purpose in life.”
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I was very successful, and I graduated with honors. And then I called my dad, who still lives in London, and I said, 'Dad, thanks for college, but I'm going to go act now.' It didn't go over very well.
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When nuclear weapons were an elite club of five relatively sane world powers, the Left was convinced the planet was about to go ka-boom any minute, and the handful of us who survived would be walking in a nuclear winter wonderland. Now anyone with a few thousand bucks and an unlisted number in Islamabad in his Rolodex can get a nuke, and the Left couldn't care less.
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There are many successful startup funders who are looking for ways to make a difference in the world.