Samuel Gompers Quotes
Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
Samuel Gompers
Quotes to Explore
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
Zach Anner
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I was an expert horseman.
Harry Carey, Jr.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
Ram Dass
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
Saina Nehwal
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
Rachel Nichols
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
N. T. Wright
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I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
Hamid Karzai
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
Wanda Sykes
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He who gives love, receives love.
Omar Torrijos Herrera
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
Nancy Lublin
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
Oliver Reed
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No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
T. E. Hulme
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
J. R. Smith
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
Uta Hagen
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
Jack Zipes
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It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
Warren Cuccurullo
Duran Duran
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
Ralph Stanley
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People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.
Taylor Kitsch
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I collect action figures, mostly. I have a Batman room, with just Batman stuff, and I have a Disney collection.
Jason Marsden
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'Bloody' has now become an important indicator of Australianness and of cultural values such as friendliness, informality, laid-backness, mateship - and perhaps even the Australian dislike and distrust of verbal and intellectual graces
Kate Burridge
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My main goal is to be the No. 1 American and the No. 1 player in the world. If an American is on top of the leader board every week, it will bring more people into the game of golf.
Paula Creamer
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I'm a mathematician and always have been, as far as I can remember. I don't remember when I first got involved with mathematics, but I think of myself always as a mathematician first.
Lloyd Shapley
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The fear of failing... not quite the fear of failing, but the uncertainty of whether you are going to perform or not, is there every single game I have played in my life. It will always be there.
AB de Villiers
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
Samuel Gompers
