James P. Hoffa Quotes

And some of those people that voted Republican are now going to say, what a mistake I made because I didn't know they were going to take my job away. I didn't know they were going to take collective bargaining away.

James P. Hoffa

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JobMistakePeopleKnowNowSay

Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?

John Amery

LeaderDreamsWarHeritageNothing

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

Maya Angelou

BeautifulMeSpeakMoreEnglish

I've been lucky from my earliest memory on. I happened to be born to the right parents, and the lives we led - working class, migratory - suited my personality. I had an adventurous mindset, and we lived on an Army base, then in South Dakota - it was a dynamic environment.

Tom Brokaw

PersonalityMemoryParentsMindset

I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I'm just an arrogant little thing. It's hard for me to admit that I can't understand something, let alone not be in charge of it.

Mary Karr

AloneMePhilosophyAdmitUnderstand

On an average day, I spend 12 hours listening to music. Very little writing.

Michel Faber

MusicDayListeningWritingLittle

When our minds as people normally starts to wrap around things, we start to attach all these ideas to it that really aren't that necessary to the core of it, if you just experience it and kind of go through it.

Josh Holloway

ExperiencePeopleIdeasStartYou

If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way.

Derrick Rose

PositivePastNegativeEnergyThink

I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.

Diablo Cody

I AmMeaningRockWriteRolling

I love Sweden. The entire world should be like Sweden. They all like to drink and get naked, and the women are hot. I can't think of a better nation on the planet.

Drew Curtis

LoveWomenWorldThinkBetterNaked

I was allowed to write about race using an elevator metaphor because of Toni Morrison and David Bradley and Ralph Ellison. Hopefully, me being weird allows someone who's 16 and wanting to write inspires them to have their own weird take on the world, and they can see the different kinds of African American voices being published.

Colson Whitehead

MeWorldWeirdAmericanSomeoneSee

Modeling had never entered my consciousness. I was always like, 'I'm going to act.' But I thought, 'If this can help me with that, great.'

Anya Taylor-Joy

GreatMeThoughtHelpModelingAct

There is a kind of belief among my students that things that are true are interesting. But most things that are true are not interesting. Four pages describing how I got up and brushed my teeth in the morning would kill you.

Alistair MacLeod

MorningInterestingYouKindTrue

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