Chuck Thompson Quotes
Any time you hear a politician or corporate head make a statement like this, you should substitute the words “worker” or “common man” for “union,” because that’s what it really means.
Quotes to Explore
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Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.
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What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
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Zhvania was the general secretary of the organisation which I founded, the Citizens' Union. It was the biggest organisation and came first in all elections, and Zhvania was the leader.
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I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.
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My fashion statement depends on my mood. I am more of a tomboy when dressing up, and I have never worn pink in my entire life.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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My grandfather was actually a union organizer at Walt Disney. He was an animator. He used to draw Donald Duck for Walt Disney.
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I've never felt the breath of God – you can take that statement literally or metaphorically – more than when I was yearning for a personal, intimate connection to something bigger than me.
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"Say whatever you choose about the object, and whatever you might say is not it." Or, in other wordsː "Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not." This negative statement is final, because it is negative.
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Its interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.
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The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't have easy access to official documents, who aren't able to buttonhole people in power.
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The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.
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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.
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Perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God's.
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Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children.
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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
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Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.
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I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was.
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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Any time you hear a politician or corporate head make a statement like this, you should substitute the words “worker” or “common man” for “union,” because that’s what it really means.
