Mary Harris Jones Quotes
I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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As Trotsky didn't exactly say, you may not be interested in electronic snoops, but snoops are interested in you, whether or not you keep Coke's secret recipe on your iPhone.
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I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
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All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.
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Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
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When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I haven't done it, I'll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.
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There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
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A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.
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I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.
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I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word.
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The minimum I. Q. necessary for one to grasp the concepts of Statistics required for the undergraduate degree is 120.
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The whole Baja California peninsula is an energetic place, and it's incredibly alive.
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I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.
