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John Sweeney Quotes

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

John Sweeney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: August 9, 1955

Topics

Work Success Opportunity Child Climb

Relief organizations both large and small are coordinating deliveries of food, clothing, water, and other basic necessities to those impacted by Katrina.

Jo Bonner

Water Food Small Clothing Relief

But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.

Jerry Harrison

Love Focus Beginning Doing You Way

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

Max Lerner

Best Learn You Late Lying Prove

It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options.

Robert Half

Good Decisions Easy Bad Options

I spent every bit of my money to try and get a Mickey Mantle card, and I don't have one. Growing up in Oklahoma, Mickey Mantle was my idol. And here I am, and I'd go pick cotton to have enough money, and I'd buy all of these packs, and I'd chew all of the gum, and I'd never find a Mickey Mantle card.

Johnny Bench

Money I Am Growing Up Enough Find

I restore vintage Atari XY arcade video game machines.

Roger Avary

Game Vintage Arcade Restore Machines

I would love to do a comedy, but comedy probably in the sense of a dark comedy like 'Californication,' that sort of thing. Yeah, sure, I think I'm funny.

Jason Wiles

Funny Love Think Comedy Dark Sure

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Dean Koontz

Love Hope Great Death Storm World

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

William McFee

People Doing Realize Right Seem

Being in a male-dominated industry, you can feel like a little excluded. That was making me feel like maybe I'm not funny. I was really seriously considering, like, quitting standup.

Phoebe Robinson

Funny Me Feel You Seriously Little

But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors.

Tobias Wolff

Father Brother Research Growing Up

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.

Marilyn Hacker

Me Writing Think Interesting Doing