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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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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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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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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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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All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.
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A wounded healer, I think, is a lot more powerful than a healer that has not been wounded. In 'Weaker Girl,' I was coming from a wounded healer's perspective.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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Even a poor man can receive honors.
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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.
