James P. Hoffa Quotes
I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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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 want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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I will not have Botox. You know why? Because I eat! I eat the fat, I eat the vegetable, I eat everything. If you exercise and you don't eat enough, it takes its toll on the skin.
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I'm communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the official discussions, they discuss we should change the color of the walls.
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I wrote a spec script that people really liked: a political serial based on Jeffrey's Toobin's 'A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.' It was the first thing I had ever written with any political subject matter in it.
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In The Greens Are Gone, I play a character that's bipolar, so that was a big step and quite a challenge.
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I opened up for Richard Pryor in 1992. I had a conversation with him. All those other comedians can say what they want about what they did, but I opened up for the man. Paul Mooney and I are probably the only ones that can say that.
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I ended up in Hampstead for two weeks after the Tour, visiting a hospital every day before my granddad died. But he was more than my granddad. He was like my father.
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I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.
