Mary Harris Jones Quotes
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We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.
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I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.
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I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.
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The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
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Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.
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My first job on the radio was writing jokes for a Baltimore DJ called Johnny Walker, who was sort of a '70s era shock jock who all the teenage boys listened to in my school.
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There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'
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It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.
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an Australian….They have suffered under the yoke of the English…
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I'm so grateful this day has ended well.
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The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.
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I had no choice but to work hard. I was a straight-A student, went to college, and I loved business. I never thought I was going to be a singer myself.
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Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
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I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day.
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Growing up in Australia and the way I was raised, my dad told me to play as a team and to be a team player. You have five guys on the court. It's easy for five guys to defend one guy. It's hard to guard five. It's just a natural thing to do.
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Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.
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I've been asked a million times to move to Nashville, but I just can't seem to do it.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
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I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser.
