George Meany Quotes
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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Teachers alone can't educate young people.
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Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.
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Villains are fun to play.
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Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
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To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.
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We have all heard of these things before. The love letter arriving as the teacup falls. The guitar striking up as the last breath sounds out. I don't attribute it to God or to sentiment. Perhaps it's chance. Or perhaps chance is just another way to try to convince ourselves that we are valuable.
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My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.
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It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.
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4chan's culture is unique and spreads and draws people in like no other. It's also important to realize that 4chan wasn't some overnight success, and there was never 'hockey stick' - like growth.
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I'm usually done with work around 11am, so I have time before I pick the kids up from school.
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I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.
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Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.
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The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.
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The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.
