Jimmy Reid Quotes

From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the overwhelming tendency must be to see people as units of production, as indices in your accountants' books.

Jimmy Reid

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: July 9, 1932 - August 10, 2010

Topics

SuccessPeopleYouHeightsSee

It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed.

Joel Barlow

PeopleSafetyBecauseCitizensArmed

All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.

Robert Kiyosaki

EndAmericanEmpiresComeException

I never learnt Hebrew because my health was fragile, and it was thought that learning Hebrew would be an added burden. I regret it, because I would like to be able to join in fully. Not that I am a believer, but I would like to be.

Anita Brookner

LearningHealthI AmRegretThought

The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed.

John Philip Sousa

TimeI AmMePictureKnowBeen

I got old the way that women who aren't actresses grow old.

Simone Signoret

WomenGrowWayOldGotWho

I think that the game is the game. I think that expansion is good for the game because it gives more jobs to the people and more ballplayers can play, but I think the game is still the game. The ballplayers, they come into the game with one thing in mind - it's their job.

Tony Oliva

GoodJobPeopleMindGameThink

This independent report clearly indicates that while we may differ among ourselves in government about what to spend money on, we have one of the most reliable and non-political processes for agreeing on how much money there is. We don't play games with the numbers.

Ruth Ann Minner

MoneyGovernmentNumbersPlayGames

I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another.

Mary E. Pearson

ScienceI AmBookYouFantasyHigh

There are a lot of queers starved for entertainment from their own community.

Michelle Tea

CommunityEntertainmentOwnLot

I can do better, and if that's consistently training even harder, then I'm going to do that.

Jason Pierre-Paul

TrainingBetterI CanGoingEven

Any business, no matter what it is, lives or dies by the customer reaction it creates.

Jon Taffer

BusinessCustomerMatterReaction

I grew up reading the 'Village Voice' and wanting to be one of these multidisciplinary music writers, film writers, book writers. And I lucked out getting a job at the 'Voice' right after college.

Colson Whitehead

MusicJobCollegeBookReadingOut

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