Jan Schakowsky Quotes

The rise of franchising, contracting, and other similar employment practices has made it harder to enforce worker protections like minimum wages, overtime pay, and the right to unionize.

Jan Schakowsky

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I am pro-life, but because life is complicated, that choice is between a woman and her idea of a higher power.

Meghan McCain

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I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

Robin Hobb

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Film work is a job I like to do because I really love to solve problems.

Ry Cooder

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When I raced with Mercedes, I thought I'd learn German. But my wife didn't want to live in Germany.

Juan Manuel Fangio

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I think there is a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real but look so artificial at the same time.

Dolly Parton

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The people of New Jersey stepped up. They shared in the sacrifice. You know what else they did? They rewarded politicians who lead instead of politicians who pandered.

Chris Christie

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I check Style.com to look at the collections and love to poke around some of the other fashion blogs to see what's going on.

Ashley Olsen

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Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.

Wyclef Jean

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The aspiring tyrants of today have not forgotten the lesson of 1933: that acts of terror - real or fake, provoked or accidental - can provide the occasion to deal a death blow to democracy.

Timothy D. Snyder

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As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural powers, provided an escape for me from my mundane existence, from my lack of friends or my inability to communicate well with people. They liberated me.

Nicolas Cage

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I'm always down for a battle. I was born down.

Mark Hunt

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I don't ever get too literal.

Linda Perry

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