Karen Nussbaum Quotes

The true face of the unions is not now a man in a hard hat as much as it is a woman in a classroom or in cleaning smocks.

Karen Nussbaum

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• I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Country
  • Childhood
  • Been

• I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • School
  • You
  • Win

• While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.

  

  Sam Wood
  • Support
  • Road
  • Building

• Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Mind
  • Travel
  • Course

• I just don't drink alcohol. I never have; I never will.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Never
  • Drink
  • Alcohol

• If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Down
  • Run
  • Truck

• There is no doubt that the new wave in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot from the face of the Islamic world.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Doubt
  • Islamic

• My constant goal is to create clothing that applies to the lifestyle of my customers. My clothing must be aesthetically pleasing in color, texture, and construction. Rapid changes are a part of fashion, and the demands of the industry are that I remain fluid and versatile. But my aesthetic requirements will always be the same.

  

  Leon Max
  • Fashion
  • Color
  • Aesthetic

• Well, I am producing a show that's going to be on NBC this fall. It's called 'School Pride,' and it's a reality show where we're going around the country and renovating schools. It's really great.

  

  Cheryl Hines
  • Great
  • Country
  • School

• The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

  

  Djimon Hounsou
  • Men
  • Women
  • Kids

• I enjoy the reaction I get in the U.S.A. when people discover I have an English accent. They don't expect that, and it's kind of a kick.

  

  Marsha Thomason
  • People
  • English

• My PSA was normal but the DRE indicated there may be a problem.

  

  Len Dawson
  • May

• Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.

  

  Keith Henson
  • Growth
  • Suicide

• I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.

  

  James Lee Burke
  • Life

• Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.

  

  Charles W. Chesnutt
  • Wish

• Life is much more available in New York - there are a dozen movie theaters within walking distance. Living in California is easier, but you get sedentary.

  

  John Gregory Dunne
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Walking

• I know some women's rights activists have seen so much abuse that they can't stand men, but I have a sense of empathy with the men. Without excusing the abuse they are capable of, many of them are trapped within these communities and bound by expectations they didn't necessarily ask for.

  

  Deeyah Khan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Abuse

• Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

  

  Jeff Koons
  • Art

• The 400 of us pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter. If you're in the luckiest 1 percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Rest
  • Humanity
  • Cleaning

• To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Found
  • Events
  • States

• Wear that cologne, shave your face, shave your head, cut your nails, you know...take care of yourself.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Care
  • Cutting
  • Faces

• The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit : Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Pleasure
  • Fame
  • Riches

• The true face of the unions is not now a man in a hard hat as much as it is a woman in a classroom or in cleaning smocks.

  

  Karen Nussbaum
  • Faces
  • Cleaning
  • Classroom