Joan Kirner Quotes
Dad was a great advocate for social justice and a very quiet advocate of the essential Labor values.
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I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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There are different reasons to make movies.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress of their dreams.
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.
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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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My favorite movie is 'Die Hard.' It doesn't have pinatas and mariachis. It's just a good movie.
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To me, it felt that if I give up my name, I am also sending a message to my children, saying my name was not important enough as your father's; I am not as important as your father. That is a message we are passing down generation after generation without realising.
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I dropped out of school; I got fired from my job. Those were my roughest moments, but I always knew through it that I was going to be great.
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Dad was a great advocate for social justice and a very quiet advocate of the essential Labor values.
