Samuel Gompers Quotes
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.
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Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.
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My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.
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I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
