George Meany Quotes
The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure always will be - to better the standards of life for all who work for wages and to seek decency and justice and dignity for all Americans.
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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I love music.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
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It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.
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You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
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I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.
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On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part of human existence. It came into the world when humans did. It's what makes human beings human.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.
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But we're still rehearsing and planning to make a new album next year. We have some really good new songs that we've already been playing on that last tour that we just finished.
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The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure always will be - to better the standards of life for all who work for wages and to seek decency and justice and dignity for all Americans.
