George Meany Quotes

Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.

George Meany

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• Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Chance
  • Olympics

• The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Quality

• So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • War
  • House
  • Decision

• True, I was born and raised in Chennai, fluent in Tamil, but essentially, I am a Telugu guy and a Telugu actor.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Actor
  • Telugu
  • Tamil

• Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Fate
  • Thing
  • Accident

• Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish.

  

  Larry David
  • May
  • Myself
  • Jewish

• After school, my sister and I helped our mom in the garden. We grew potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes - not for fun, but to eat.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • School
  • Fun
  • Mom

• Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once running, can't help but not want to lose.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Help
  • Want
  • Running

• We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Know
  • Same

• I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Growing
  • Problem
  • Process

• Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • Love
  • Fame

• The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Greatest
  • Delight
  • Woods

• I actually remember the exact date I got the call that I got the 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' role - May 6, 2016. It was probably the best day of my life.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Life
  • May
  • Remember

• In the case of the cashew, someone, somewhere, a long time ago determined that it had to be roasted. The cashew was once nicknamed the blister nut, because if you try to eat it raw from the tree, your mouth pays the price. The cashew is not a nut, however; it's a seed.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Tree

• Inspiration is the key to everything.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Inspiration
  • Key

• In Europe, a great dancer might be on the same level as a movie star. In America, not so.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Great
  • America
  • Movie

• I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Up
  • Good
  • Death

• I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Time
  • Children
  • Training

• Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.

  

  George Meany
  • Profession
  • Economics
  • Once