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“I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker.”

People Thinking Hollywood Workers Personal Life Hollywood Life

“The leather vests are work vests, supposed to look like factory workers. They're actually the vests we use in the studio when we make jewelry.”

Looks Use Workers Studios Factories Jewelry Leather Vests Factory Workers

Author:Pamela Love

“Fast food workers are all the governor has power to enact. Your state legislature is held hostage by the same nitwits that hold hostage the federal [government]. People who have confused suffocating collectivism, which is bad, for a necessity to solve collective action problems, which is what all human endeavor is based on.”

“The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.”

Class Middle Lows Workers Middle Class Minimum Threshold Minimum Wage

Author:Nick Hanauer

“While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.”

Knows Sometimes Night Hours Happened Middle Late Workers Get Up Stretching Naps Up Early

Author:Larry Wall

“But though the professed aim of all scientific work is to unravel the secrets of nature, it has another effect, not less valuable, on the mind of the worker. It leaves him in possession of methods which nothing but scientific work could have led him to invent.”

Mind Secret Effects Aim Method Workers Possession Valuable

Book:The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell

Source: The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell

“No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity must look forward for his declining years to a poorhouse. A modern social consciousness demands a more humane and efficient arrangement.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6

“We call upon people everywhere to work for peace, to forget the quiet comfort of their homes, to leave behind their fears and feeling of powerlessness, their privileges and possessions, and join us as active participants and co-workers for peace.”

People Feelings Home Forget Behinds Comfort Quiet Workers Privilege Possession Active Participants Powerlessness Co Worker

Book:Fighting for Hope

Source: Fighting for Hope

“These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure foods and safe drugs, Social Security, Medicare and rules that promote competitive markets over monopolies and cartels.”

“Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them.”

Men Communication Months Tasks Workers Commodity No Communication

Author:Fred Brooks

“Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as "employee satisfaction results" - might improve.”

Should Might Results Type Management Workers Satisfaction Employee Boss Sanctions Repose Naps

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions in the length of the working week.”

Giving Greater Week Taste Demand Workers Patterns Length Flexible Reduction

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“I don't like to be called a symbol. And I don't like to be called an icon. I will just say that I have to work very, very hard. So I'd rather be known as a hard worker. I don't think symbols do much, nor icons.”

Thinking Hard Known Hard Work Workers Symbols Icons Hard Worker

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“I worked on human rights projects in Haiti, Cameroon, and East Asia, and the bigger ones tended to do with agriculture. My role was to make sure that there was equity that remained at the base of those projects, with the workers. I had a couple of different lives.”

Humans Different Roles Rights Couple Projects Bigger Workers Human Rights East Agriculture Asia Equity Haiti Different Life East Asia Cameroon

Author:Sanjay Rawal

“In Florida, then, and for farm workers for the most part in the US, there's a real sense of economic segregation. In the South, the structures of economic segregation still existed.”

Stills Real Economic Structure South Workers Farms Florida Segregation

Author:Sanjay Rawal

“We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face - a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And there's only one way to beat and win that war - the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.”

People Way War Eye Faces Fighting Winning Party One Thing Battle Beats Workers One Way Tea Tea Party Good Fight

Author:James P. Hoffa

“The total amount of money that Wall Street handed out in bonuses last year was double the total income of ALL full-time minimum wage workers. That's obscene.”

Years Lasts Streets Wall Amount Workers Income Last Year Minimum Minimum Wage Bonus Obscene

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“Do not make the mistake...of thinking that a worker is a slave and that he holds his job by his employer's permission. He does not hold it by permission - but by contract, that is, by a voluntary mutual agreement. A worker can quit his job; a slave cannot.”

Thinking Doe Jobs Mistake Slave Workers Quitting Agreement Mutual Contracts Permission Employers

Author:Ayn Rand

“People.. .love to say that 'Violence never solved anything.' But what solved Hitler? Was It a team of social workers? Was it putting daisies into the gun barrels of Nazi Panzer divisions? Was it a commission that tried to understand what made Hitler sorry? ?No. What solved Hitler was violence.”

People Made Social Violence Team Gun Workers Sorry Division Nazi Barrels Social Worker Daisies

Author:Michael Medved

“When I was a worker I busied myself with socialist or, if you like, marxist literature.”

Ifs Literature Workers Socialist Marxist

Book:Secret conversations with Hitler: the two newly-discovered 1931 interviews

Source: Secret conversations with Hitler: the two newly-discovered 1931 interviews

“War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war.”

War Government Mass Murder Workers Refuse

Author:Keir Hardie

“I thought that perhaps the most creative mix for a society would be nine parts solid worker from institutions like MIT to one part poet from Marrakech, but in spite of the fact that I myself had been trained to be one of the solid workers, which meant that all of my sympathies lay with that group, I would not surrender the poet. The problem was to find him.”

Facts Problem Would Be Creative Groups Poet Institutions Lays Workers Surrender Nine Spite My Sympathy Mit Marrakech

Author:James A. Michener

“We owe to every businessperson and worker in America the best environment in the world to create a job. We owe that to American business. 35 percent corporate tax rate is the second highest in the world. We need to lower it so they don’t leave.”

World Needs Helping Jobs America Goal Class Environment Five Middle Taxes Highest Percent Workers Rate Corporate Thirty Middle Class American Business

Author:Lindsey Graham

“The problem with Wal-Mart is that it's a business model premised on offering the customer low prices at any cost - any cost to society, any cost to workers. They've got a lot of competition and have influenced people to follow their model through simply providing a model that is so successful at making profits.”

People Problem Successful Cost Models Lows Competition Workers Profit Customers Offering Providing Business Models

Author:Liza Featherstone

“Wal-Mart workers make just over $8 an hour, and they must pay more than a third of their health insurance premium if they choose to take the company's insurance. That means just about half of them don't choose to take the health insurance because they can't afford it.”

Ifs Mean Hours Pay Half Company Thirds Workers Premium

Author:Liza Featherstone

“An essential criterion for any humane immigration policy is that it should allow families to remain together. Whether that means letting the entire family migrate together, or allowing a caregiver to travel back and forth across the border, it should make it easier for workers to be with their families instead of harder.”

Should Mean Together Policy Easier Essentials Harder Workers Immigration Borders Allowing Humane Criteria Back And Forth Caregivers Immigration Policy Migrate

Author:Jody Heymann

“The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon.”

Used Brain Skills Workers Farms Surgeons Migrants Brain Surgeons

Author:Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

“I am certain that we do not need quotas for women, especially not in a time when we have a growing shortage of qualified workers. Companies are already asking head hunters to find women for top positions.”

Needs Certain Company Growing Position Asking Workers Hunters Qualified Shortage Quota

Author:Kristina Schroder

“The main difference lies in wage levels, which is because our workers are not yet as well trained as in other countries. We are a poor country. This is why we must accept the conditions that prevail in international markets. But our trade unions do represent the rights of workers.”

Wells Country Lying Differences Poor Levels Accepting Rights Conditions Trade Unions Workers International Other Countries Poor Countries Trade Unions

Author:Nguyen Minh Triet

“Just as members of American teachers unions often send their own children to private schools, so unionized workers at government-run hospitals in Britain have insurance that allows them to go to private hospitals. In both cases, those on the inside realize how bad these institutions are, regardless of what they say to those on the outside.”

Children Government Running School Realizing Cases Teacher Members Institutions Unions Workers Britain Hospitals Private School Teachers Unions

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The corporation as it now exists, with armies of salaried workers in identical cubes, will gradually disappear.”

Army Workers Disappear Corporations Identical Cubes

Author:Barry Libert

“The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked working for others and they seemed to resent taking orders. On the whole, directors were treated absurdly well, and workers badly, and most industries were weakened by class suspicion and false economies and cynicism. But the same qualities that made English people seem stubborn and secretive made them, face to face, reliable and true to their word. I thought: The English do small things well and big things badly.”

Source: The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain

“We have everywhere an absence of memory. Architects sometimes talk of building with context and continuity in mind, religious leaders call it tradition, social workers say it's a sense of community, but it is memory we have banished from our cities. We have speed and power, but no place. Travel, but no destination. Convenience, but no ease.”

“The foundation of Ontario's economy is our skilled workers and innovative companies. Our government will continue its proactive approach to partnering with business and industry, investing strategically to help companies grow and create jobs in this period of economic uncertainty.”

Helping Government Jobs Grows Company Economy Economic Industry Periods Approach Foundation Workers Investing Uncertainty Innovative Proactive Ontario Skilled Workers Partnering

Author:Brad Duguid

“I believe in workers rights when people are doing a good job. If somebody needs support I am always there, but if they're taking the piss, I am hard on them.”

People Believe Jobs I Believe Rights Workers I Believe In Good Job Workers Rights

Author:John Caudwell

“The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.”

Feels Jobs Artist Miracle Blind Workers Dull Miracle Worker

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“Attitudes to mental health are slowly changing, there's less stigma among healthcare workers and a greater commitment to provide mental health treatment when doctors and nurses can see people do get better.”

People Attitude Greater Health Commitment Doctors Mental Health Workers Get Better Treatment Nurse Healthcare Stigma Doctors And Nurses

Author:Reggie Fils-Aime

“Remodeling defies the principles of modern commerce. You shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, yet these same people are constantly insinuating that you're cheap. (It reminded me of medicine, another area where you shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, who make you feel guilty for questioning a bill.) Construction workers are the blue-collar version of the snooty salespeople at Gucci who make $8 an hour but look down on you if you balk at a $400 alligator wallet.”

“My parents were exclude from rights as farm workers, though that has to change.”

Parent Change Rights Workers Farms

Author:Julia Serano

“If you need ownership and responsibility from core workers, patriarchy can't get you there.”

Ifs Needs Responsibility Workers Core Ownership Patriarchy

Author:Peter Block

“The essence of leadership is the capacity to build and develop the self-esteem of the workers.”

Self Self Esteem Capacity Essence Workers Esteem

Author:Irwin Federman

“If you are unskilled and uneducated, your job is going south. Skilled workers, educated people are going to do fine ’cause those are the kinds of jobs Nafta is going to create. If we are going to start rewarding no skills and stupid people, I’m serious, let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do - let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.”

People Ifs Kind Jobs Causes Stupid Serious Fine Skills South Workers Educated Stupid People Uneducated Nafta Skilled Workers

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Marx's theory that only capitalists benefit from capitalism and workers are exploited was completely wrong. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Workers earned more as economies grew.”

Has Beens Economy Theory Grew Benefits Capitalism Workers Capitalist Could Have Been

Author:Kenneth Rogoff

“I never considered myself a good photographer. I still don't. I thought of myself as a hard worker. My camera was a sponge and I had an instinct that athletes have - anticipation. Photography really represents an enormous amount of anticipation - understanding what might be there the next moment and being prepared for it.”

Stills Hard Moments Might Next Understanding Hard Work Amount Photography Cameras Prepared Instinct Workers Photographer Athlete Enormous Anticipation Sponges Hard Worker

Author:Lawrence Schiller

“Workers are not being exploited. But if their share of growth doesn't increase, this could be a potential cause of social tension worldwide.”

Ifs Social Causes Growth Share Increase Workers Tension

Author:Kenneth Rogoff

“Because it's unacceptable that the aid worker's chauffeur only speaks his own tribal language, an applicant is needed who also speaks English fluently - and, ideally, one who is also well mannered. So you end up with some African biochemist driving an aid worker around, distributing European food, and forcing local farmers out of their jobs. That's just crazy!”

Wells Ends Jobs Speak Language Crazy Needed Workers Aids Driving Locals Farmers Speak English Chauffeurs Well Mannered

Author:James Shikwati

“My parents are hard workers and they showed me what it means to work hard. I would give a lot of the credit to my parents for where I'm at and who I am. They both worked multiple jobs to make sure me and my siblings were able to play sports and have a home. I'll never forget how hard they worked and that always motivates me.”

Giving Mean Hard Play Home Able Jobs Sports Parent Forget Hard Work Workers Credit Who I Am Never Forget Multiple Sibling My Siblings Hard Worker Multiple Jobs

Author:Clay Guida

“My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, "I wish I could do that." Like women who endure hardships and turn their luck around and bring up children on their own and start a business. Or a social worker who leaves his country, his comfort, his friends, and goes far away to help people he doesn't know. I want to evolve into that, ultimately. I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.”

People Knows Want Children Persons Country Helping Turns Wish Social Can Do Roles Sacrifice Comfort Models Luck Workers Endure Evolve Hardship Role Models Far Away Social Worker

Author:Queen Rania of Jordan

“I think television is one of the last real bastions of the white beauty standard, but still in many industries the workers can be replaced by someone who's willing to play the game or who looks like the person in charge. And this is a problem for all women, not just women of color.”

Thinking Looks Persons Stills Real Play Problem Lasts Games White Television Color Willing Industry Standards Workers Replaced

Author:Jami Floyd

“Where do people get off telling people what to do? It's their bodies. If you legalized sex work and legally protected the sex workers, you wouldn't see anything like human trafficking. All of that would be obliterated.”

People Ifs Humans Body Would Be Sex Workers Protected Human Trafficking Trafficking Sex Work

Author:Margaret Cho

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