Sidney Hillman Quotes
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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It's good to get out there and kind of move the body around a little bit, play some hockey, enjoy Nashville as a city and spend some time with family and friends.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
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I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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If you work out 20 minutes a day in some way, you're going to see changes.
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I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.
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When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds.
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It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities 'job killers.'
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One of the hardest things we must sometimes do is to be present to another person's pain without trying to fix it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person’s mystery and misery.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
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Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.
