Richard Trumka Quotes
Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.
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It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.
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I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.
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I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'
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I really am a woman at peace.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.
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Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.
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When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.
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The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.
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Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.
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I wish I could just be in the movies and still enjoy everything else like a normal person.
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I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.
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I was born in London, England during the great fog of 1952, but survived the coal-fueled air pollution with no ill effects and after less than a year in England was carried to Canada by my parents.
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I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.
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The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.
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Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.
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Although the United States has made tremendous progress cleaning up its water by removing billions of pounds of pollutants and doubling the number of waterways safe for fishing and swimming, a majority of Americans live within 10 miles of a polluted lake, river, stream or coastal area.
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Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue - and their failures are only judged anomalies. A pretty nice arrangement for investors. The only people who suffer are the citizens.
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Marcus Aurelius used people for the tasks they excelled at and praised them for it. Used to say it was impossible to make men as we would like them to be but was fitting to use them where they were useful.
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Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.
