Stephen F. Lynch (Stephen Francis Lynch) Quotes

Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions.

Stephen F. Lynch

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• Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • People
  • Rights
  • Unions

• Nothing short of the Almighty Power of God can Save us - it is not in our Numbers, our Union, or our Valour that I dare trust.

  

  Abraham Clark
  • God
  • Power
  • Trust

• I've said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I'm against 'don't ask, don't tell' and that we're going to end this policy.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Said
  • Unions
  • Addresses

• Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union

  

  Francois Mitterrand
  • War
  • Arguing
  • Nationalism

• He was the prototype for what we're all looking for. He represented the jockey colony with so much dignity and class. He was always politically correct and always said the right things.

  

  D. Wayne Lukas
  • Represented
  • Colony
  • Jockey

• If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior as possible, and that only the offspring of the better unions should be kept.

  

  Plato
  • Excellence
  • Unions
  • Offspring

• No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Represented
  • Hypocrites
  • No Power

• The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • History
  • Errors
  • Instruction

• The fact that we represented freedom, you know. We talked about that in the songs and I think that the parents, like all parents, they want their kids to be in line and not go crazy or do anything too weird (laughs). And for some reason, I think, people identified The Doors as representing just being able to do whatever you wanted to do.

  

  Robby Krieger The Doors
  • Freedom
  • Fact
  • Represented

• People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Represented

• I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, and when I have unions like with George Lucas and Peter Jackson, it's really great; not only do I benefit, but the project is better for it.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Creative
  • Creating
  • Burden

• There's a vast class - the poor, the underprivileged, the people least likely to vote - who are not represented any more.

  

  Austin Mitchell
  • People
  • Represented
  • Vast Class

• We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself.

  

  Al-Kindi
  • Values
  • Generations
  • Ashamed

• The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • World
  • Attitude
  • Philosophical

• The difference between a gas and a liquid is that in the former, the atoms and molecules move to and fro in an independent existence, whereas in the latter, they are always in touch with one another, though they are changing partners continually.

  

  William Henry Bragg
  • Always
  • Difference
  • Between

• I feel like we're stuck in the former mode of reacting because that's what gains traction in Washington. But I really believe we need a robust public good argument. Net neutrality is not just about creating the next Instagram or Farmville or whatever.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • Believe
  • Feels
  • Creating

• I've tried to stay true to myself this whole entire time, and I think I've represented myself as creatively as I could with what I got on the show.

  

  Blake Lewis
  • True
  • Show
  • Represented

• The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent’s heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.

  

  Debra Ginsberg
  • Human
  • Outside
  • Represented

• A couple must agree on the following topics: 1) Do they want kids? 2) Do they want a dog? 3) Do they want sex? 4) Do they want sleep? (If they answer yes to 3 and 4, then they must answer no to 1.) And finally, 5) Who mixes the cocktails before they both don the sexy rubber gloves and clean the toilet?

  

  E. Jean Carroll
  • Kids
  • Sleep
  • Couple

• You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Society
  • City
  • Violence

• Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

  

  Richard von Weizsaecker
  • Remember
  • Inhumanity
  • Whoever

• A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Correct
  • Clocks
  • Wrong Time

• If not every one of these people, who were never perfect, is worthy of our love, at least their fate deserves our attention and our memory. They should talk and be talked about.

  

  Allen Grossman
  • People
  • Memory
  • Deserve

• Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions.

  

  Stephen F. Lynch
  • Unions
  • Former
  • Represented