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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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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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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Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
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I want to think I deserve what I get. I don't want to consider how vastly I am overly rewarded. I don't want to consider the injustices around me. I don't want any encounters with the disenfranchised. I want to say it's not my fault. But it is, it's yours and mine, and ours. We'd better figure out ways to spread some equity around if we want to go on living in a society that is at least semi-functional. It's a fundamental responsibility, to ourselves.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.
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If you serve well, your volleys are going to be so much easier. It has got to do with confidence, obviously.
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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.
