Jan Schakowsky Quotes

A woman should not have to fear retribution from her employer, and the District of Columbia should be able to pass laws to protect against that retribution.

Jan Schakowsky

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FearWomanProtectEmployerAgainst

My mother, Nancy Dickerson, was a reporter for CBS and NBC and the first female star of television news; my father, Wyatt Dickerson, was a successful businessman. Their parties, from the '60s to the '80s, attracted cabinet officials, movie stars, and presidents.

John Dickerson

StarsFatherMotherTelevisionNews

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

Matthew Simpson

FaithGreatPastPresentKnow

As MBA professors endlessly tell their students, companies do best when they stick to what they do well. There's a reason Apple doesn't make blenders. There's a reason Haagen-Dazs doesn't sell meat. And there's a reason drug companies should focus on saving and improving lives - not jeopardizing them.

Jeffrey Kluger

BestFocusAppleReasonMeatTell

It's always a daily struggle to write.

Michael Cimino

DailyStruggleWriteAlways

I think my experience as an actor helps me to write anything. It certainly helped me to write 'August Osage County.' It helps me to write any play that I'm working on because I think one of the things I do well is write good roles for actors.

Tracy Letts

GoodExperienceMeThinkPlayActor

I don't think we ever know 100 percent of a person, even ourselves, but I think in families, you get closer to people's secrets and people's darkness - and their light, the full contrast of a person.

Derek Cianfrance

LightDarknessPeopleThinkYouGet

To a degree, rock fans like to live vicariously and they like that, music fans in general, but when indie music sort of came into prominence in the early '90s, a lot of it was TV-driven, too, where if you saw the first Nirvana video, you're looking at three guys that look like people you go to school with.

Chris Cornell

LiveMusicSchoolPeopleLooking

Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.

David Steinberg

New YorkLawyerWeekYouSometimes

Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school - so right around the time he's going through his big renaissance is right when I'm starting to do my high school revolting.

Colin Hanks

TimeSchoolMindHigh SchoolBecome

Almost all the golf courses in Staten Island double as something else.

Colin Jost

GolfIslandDoubleSomethingAlmost

I got into writing to become a 'Star Trek' writer. I was a rabid fan. I had shelves and shelves and shelves of action figures in my bedroom that scared away more dates than I care to admit to.

Bryan Fuller

WritingActionCareAdmitBecome

Look: I download music illegally, if I really want it. But I always then buy the record - I support art.

Pete Wentz

MusicArtSupportLookWantAlways

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