Jimmy Hoffa Quotes
Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike?
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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There was a time when caddies couldn't wear shorts.
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I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the big conversations we're having as a culture is we thought we'd solved sexism and racism, and we're realizing more and more that we haven't.
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I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
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Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
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Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school.
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Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.
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Good asparagus needs minimal treatment and is best eaten with few other ingredients.
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All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
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'How, in this day and age, can any one of you claim to be better than your fellow human beings?''Because we are,' said Marilyn Deighton-True with a shrug. 'Face reality, Giles, or it will face you. You can spout all the socialiste nouveau crap you like, but it simply doesn’t apply to a meritocracy.'
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Quare non ut intellegere possit sed ne omnino possit non intellegere curandum.
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Each thought himself, especially since this last promotion, to be indispensably necessary to the formation of London society, and was comfortable in the conviction that he had thoroughly succeeded in life by acquiring the privilege of sitting down to dinner three times a week with peers and peeresses.
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The cock does not crow till it has thrice flapped its wings; the parrot in moving among boughs never puts its feet excepting where it has first put its beak. Vows are not made till Hope is dead.
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God doesn't believe in the easy way.
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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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I think it is possible to be friends even if you're competing. You know, there's so many guys in rooms that try to psych each other out, and it doesn't work. It only hinders their work.
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Experience is the basis of poetry.
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Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike?
