Sidney Hillman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
-
We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
-
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.
-
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.
-
History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
-
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.
-
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.
-
And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
-
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.
-
I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
-
If you work out 20 minutes a day in some way, you're going to see changes.
-
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.
-
Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.
-
Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that's as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all - humanity was wounded by the genocide.
-
I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.
-
And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.
-
If you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true.
-
Throughout my years of public service, I've listened to the voices of the gay and lesbian community, whether through whispered confidences or public declarations. I understand what it truly means to say that all people should be treated equally, and I'll always stand up for fair and equal treatment of gay and lesbian Americans.
-
I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
-
Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.
