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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The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.
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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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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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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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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
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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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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
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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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In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.
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Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.
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I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.
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Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
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It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!
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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.
