Mary Harris Jones Quotes
I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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I have a lot of Republican friends.
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Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
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Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but as an adult, and I think it's important to voice that.
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I'm a white girl and not a white girl, identified by other people as black and not black for as long as I can remember - which, in mixed-people speak, means biracial.
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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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I have all these rules for avoiding depression. One is going outside in the morning. I don't keep breakfast in the house, so that I have to go out first thing when I first wake up. And then I come back and shower.
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I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.
