Mary Harris Jones Quotes
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.
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I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.
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Not only do I not want to be stereotyped as this Asian girl who fights - gee, what a wonder - but also I have more to offer than that.
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My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
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It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.
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The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
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My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.
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Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I'm gay, then I think I'll be fine. I can handle it.
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I'm an urban act.
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When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.
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What I want to focus on tonight is the state of our democracy. Understand, democracy does not require uniformity but democracy does require a basic sense of solidarity - the idea that for all our outward differences, we're all in this together; that we rise or fall as one.
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My mother couldn't take having three boys. She was extremely jumpy, to say the least. Any noise startled her. The sound of a pot dropping on the ground could make her hit the ceiling.
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I have learned that while your putting your record together you can get so caught up in making what you want that you forget what you wanted in the first place.
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The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
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Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.
