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		The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				John L. Lewis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Hardly any of my most memorable meals have been eaten in a restaurant, and definitely none in one of those fancy marble-floored, polished-silver establishments. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yotam Ottolenghi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sadie Jones 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Eddie Murphy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Kingsolver 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Wes Craven's 'Shocker' is one of my favorite soundtracks. I don't know where that movie stands in the critical eye of cinema, but it was a really fun movie because of all the bands that were part of it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Green 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samantha Mumba 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Beau Willimon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barack Obama 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Caitlin Moran 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fannie Lou Hamer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Catalan politics emancipated from the Spanish politics on September 27, 2015. Since then, we've acted with a sovereign mentality, political sovereignty. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carles Puigdemont 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ian Mckellen