Mary Harris Jones Quotes

I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.

Mary Harris Jones

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• If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Reality
  • Advice
  • Young

• When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

  

  Oliver North
  • You
  • Trust
  • Information

• People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.

  

  LaToya London
  • People
  • Time
  • America

• America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Country
  • America
  • Revolution

• Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Some People

• England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Sea
  • Lucky
  • Island

• I love singing and performing. I'm always singing. Even if I'm at school or in the car, I'm always singing. My mom said ever since I could talk, I was singing.

  

  Caitlin Hale
  • School
  • Mom
  • Always

• Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Freedom
  • First Amendment

• I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Pride
  • Honor

• I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • World
  • Myself
  • Garden

• There is a tendency to underestimate the power of what we can do without words. Sometimes you can make a scene even more powerful and precise without dialogue.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Power
  • Words
  • Powerful

• When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Thought
  • Speak

• I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Life
  • Business
  • Poetry

• The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. That is possible for him who never argues and strives with men and facts, but in all experience retires upon himself, and looks for the ultimate cause of things in himself.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• Heart of my heart, we cannot die! Love triumphant in flower and tree, Every life that laughs at the sky Tells us nothing can cease to be: One, we are one with the song to-day, One with the clover that scents the world, One with the Unknown, far away, One with the stars, when earth grows old.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Life
  • World
  • Heart

• Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Together
  • Financial

• I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Thinking

• I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?

  

  James Earl Jones
  • People
  • Simple

• Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." Was not Amos an extremist for justice: "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus."

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hate
  • Justice
  • Pray

• I think as more women are in positions of power, more people of color are in positions of power, the stories become more inclusive; the casts become more inclusive.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• Actually, the world and America is upset and the only way to bring about a change is to upset it more.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • World
  • America

• Public servants should always be accountable and responsible for what they are advocating, and I challenge the American people to demand this from their representatives.

  

  John Fleming
  • People
  • American
  • Challenge

• I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.

  

  Mary Harris Jones