Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Quotes

The IWW Industrial Workers of the World has been accused of pushing women to the front. This is not true. Rather, the women have not been kept in back, and so they have naturally moved to the front.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

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• I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Think

• When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Glasses
  • Teeth
  • Braces

• Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.

  

  Camilla Luddington
  • Running
  • Down
  • Active

• Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • History
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• The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Law
  • Become
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• AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Today
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• Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

  

  Sampha
  • Music
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder

• I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Nice

• I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Remember
  • Happy
  • Pride

• I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
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  • Lake

• I am very lucky in that I can eat what I want and don't have to follow any special diet.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• I've been told by many people that if I had a Twitter account, I would be making five hundred thousand dollars more a year.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Year
  • Twitter

• My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Job
  • Interesting
  • Quality

• This little bathtub smells like ass.24.

  

  Ze Frank

• Perhaps one of the few positive aspects of the coup is that it has discredited the claim that that that the state had been taken over by the Brotherhood under Morsi.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Taken
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• It is, of course, clear that a country with a large foreign population must endeavour, through its schools, to assimilate the children of immigrants. It is, however, unfortunate that a large part of this process should be effected by means of a somewhat blatant nationalism.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Country
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• My work has always been political, because the choice of being an artist is political in China.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Work
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• I really do think that putting expectations on a holiday is setting yourself up for failure.

  

  Paloma Ayana Stoecker
  • Up
  • Failure
  • Holiday

• Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Confidence

• Poor Gauguin, 'way off there on his island! I'll wager he spends most of his time thinking of Rue Lafitte. I advised him to go to New Orleans, but he decided it was too civilized. He had to have people around him with flowers on their heads and rings in their noses before he could feel at home. Now if I should leave my house for more than two days...

  

  Edgar Degas
  • People
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  • Thinking

• I would love to appear in 'The Defenders.' I don't know - because hopefully she'll maybe be on the bad side. I don't know - I don't know what they'd do with Elektra in 'The Defenders,' but that would be a good dynamic, I think - to be confronted by these four superheroes, and I think it would be interesting - I'd be curious to see what they do.

  

  Elodie Yung
  • Good
  • She
  • Bad

• The generation of composers that are just preceded me, people like [Karlheinz] Stockhausen, [Pierre] Boulez, and, well, [John] Cage for that matter,[Morton] Feldman ... That was a kind of experimental music that was very isolated. It had no real public.

  

  Philip Glass
  • People
  • Music
  • Real

• The IWW Industrial Workers of the World has been accused of pushing women to the front. This is not true. Rather, the women have not been kept in back, and so they have naturally moved to the front.

  

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
  • Women
  • Moved
  • Workers