Mary Harris Jones Quotes
I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
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You have to be yourself.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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Why, you're all grown up! The last time I saw you I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle!
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You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself.
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Greedy bankers trashing the economy are to blame, not migrants.
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There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to their duty and not fly like recreants from danger. Texas must be defended and liberty maintained.
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Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.
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I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.
