Wendell Phillips Quotes
The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of creative force in you, and I think everyone has it, and it's completely unique to you. And you as a person have a little bit of a responsibility as its shepherd if you choose to incorporate that into your life.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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We're building what I call 'software apartheid.' We're in the process of creating a divided society: those who can use technology on one side, and those who can't on the other. And it happens to divide neatly along economic lines.
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One man's holy is another woman's sublime.
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When people blanket a whole class of people with statements, I just think that is unfair to everybody. I could do the same thing about media. I can do the same thing about politicians or lawyers, and they're just never accurate.
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I'd say people that really inspired me at first were like, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey... serious Jim Carrey though.
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The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
