Fiorello LaGuardia Quotes
An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.Fiorello LaGuardia
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When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.
Fidel Castro -
I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.
Dana Schutz -
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde -
Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
Barbara Hershey -
With TV, you get on a show and you're there for 11 years playing the same character. I would pull my hair out. Yes, the money is good. But I'm really not in this business to chase dollars.
Taraji P. Henson -
It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.
Samantha Power
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There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifying - as long as I can sit at my typewriter, alone, for half a day.
Edith Pearlman -
I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
Maajid Nawaz -
I think you have to be careful. You have to know exactly what is going to resonate with voters. And you can't get ahead of that. You have to be very careful with your approach.
Wendy Davis -
My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
Halle Berry -
I think it is all about finding ways to challenge yourself.
Aaron Rodgers -
It used to break my heart that I didn't get to start in varsity soccer!
Rachel Platten
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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
Kate Winslet -
We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
Ted Nelson -
On Friday, June 12, 1992, 110 heads of state gathered at Riocentro. They were indistinguishable in dress and deportment. Where was biodiversity when we needed it?
P. J. O'Rourke -
My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.
James Brown -
Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice
Jay-Z
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America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.
Ilka Chase -
Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
The resettlement of populations scattered by war and by enemy occupation is one of the problems with which Europe will be most urgently faced when the occupied countries are set free. Since hostilities began, millions of people have left homes destroyed or threatened with destruction; millions more have been transplanted, deported, or expelled to make room for foreign newcomers who have taken over their property; millions of others again have been taken prisoner or individually recruited as workers and sent away from their countries to serve the occupying power.
Eugene M. Kulischer -
I knew how many zeroes there were in a quintillion, but I thought that algebra lived in ponds.
Gavin Extence -
An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.
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