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.Mary Harris Jones
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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?'
Ralph Brown -
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.
Karl Lagerfeld -
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.
Yann Tiersen -
I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
Nate Corddry -
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.
Calvin Coolidge -
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.
Olesya Rulin
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Wendell Willkie -
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.
Barton Gellman -
I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
Kate Jackson -
All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.
Ian Hacking -
Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
Malcolm Gladwell -
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.
Osric Chau
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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.
Malcolm Gladwell -
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
T. S. Eliot -
A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.
Ted Naifeh -
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.
Ursula Andress -
I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.
Vijender Singh -
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A. C. Benson
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I'm not ashamed of my body and you know everything in the fashion world, if I was vulnerable to it, could drive me crazy. I think it produces so much self-hatred.
Nan Goldin -
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.
Leo Tolstoy -
There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.
John Cusack -
I think that you really don't have a choice, when you see that things are wrong the only choice you really have is to just do what you can to make it better.
Jon Fishman -
And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California.
Meg Whitman -
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.
Mary Harris Jones