J. B. Pritzker Quotes

Women should not be forced to accept sexual harassment as the price of admission to a life and career in the political world. They should not have to endure unwanted touching, innuendo, and propositioning from men in positions of power.

J. B. Pritzker

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The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

Johann Georg Hamann

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I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.

John McGahern

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You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark. I mean, you thought it was great to be there in the clubhouse. You thought it was great to be on the field.

Johnny Bench

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When I look at it now, the whole punk thing is sort of comedy in a weird way.

Simon Cowell

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My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

Roman Polanski

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At 18 to 20, I was probably one of the quickest things around, at the peak of my powers.

Michael Owen

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I've always balked at anything that feels like a clique, even if it's not always in my best interest to do so. I like each individual, fedora-wearing hipster - it's just the greater gestalt that rubs me the wrong way.

Michael Showalter

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I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

Michael Moriarty

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Anyone who would let Gary Cooper and the entire cast go charging on horseback without first finding out what kind of footing the horses had is nuts and cannot possibly direct a motion picture.

Dick York

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I'm formally trained, I don't know what classically trained really means. I've worked with Sanford Meisner. And I've worked at Circle Rep with Marshall W. Mason and Lanford Wilson and some really good people. I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

Brad Dourif

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When 'Ishaqzaade' released, I was going through hell. It didn't matter what I said or did, because I had lost my mother.

Arjun Kapoor

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I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.

Anthony Doerr

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