Mary Harris Jones Quotes

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

Mary Harris Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 1, 1837 - November 30, 1930

Topics

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My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.

Robert Lacey

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I use a Clarins sunscreen every day, even in winter; it's the secret to keeping beautiful skin even as you get older.

Jeanne Damas

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You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

Steve Irwin

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There are American directors I'd really like to work with, but I don't know how much I want to be sitting in my house, doing the rounds of meetings with CEOs. You have to be really hardworking to do all that, and I'm lazy.

Romola Garai

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Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects.

Mitch Kapor

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To be honest, I just want to go somewhere where I can wear a white Speedo.

Johnny Weir

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Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles.

Doris Lilly

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Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.

Christina Romer

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There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.

Conan O'Brien

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In future also, we would like to back films that can be considered slightly risky since they don't have song and dance.

Anushka Sharma

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I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.

William Julius Wilson

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Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Thomas Jefferson

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