Unionizing Quotes & Sayings

Fact is, awards shows were never really about recognizing achievement. They were a publicity ploy cooked up in the late 1920s by MGM topper Louie Mayer and his newly formed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which was itself, back in the day, nothing but a front organization to discourage unionizing. — John Ridley

The essence of the conception of righteousness, therefore, is to afford an outlet for sadism by cloaking cruelty as justice. — Bertrand Russell

Five basic truths, five foundation-principles of the knowledge about God which Christians have, — J.I. Packer

L.A. is a bit strange. It doesn't seem like the real world. — Hope Solo

Finished in a frenzy that reminded me of our last night in Cambridge. Watched my final sunrise. Enjoyed a last cigarette. Didn't think the view could be any more perfect until I saw that beat-up trilby. Honestly, Sixsmith, as ridiculous as that thing makes you look, I don't believe I've ever seen anything more beautiful. Watched you for as long as I dared. I don't believe it was a fluke that I saw you first. I believe there is another world waiting for us, Sixsmith. A better world, and I'll be waiting for you there. I believe we do not stay dead long. Find me beneath the Corsican stars, where we first kissed.
Yours eternally, R.F. — David Mitchell

It's easier to play quirky characters and hide behind wardrobe and make-up, especially. — William Sanderson

He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points. — Ayn Rand

There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. that it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense study to make us sensible of its force, that was at first requisite for its invention. When we leave our closet, and engage in the common affairs of life, its conclusions seem to vanish, like the phantoms of the night on the appearance of the morning; and 'tis difficult for us to retain even that conviction, which we had attain'd with difficulty. — David Hume

We can pay now to prevent or we can pay later to treat. — Martin J. Blaser

Afterward Joe Biden greeted me outside the green room, falling on bent knee to kiss my hand. (Who says chivalry is dead!) — Hillary Rodham Clinton

I'm so sick of sitting on this fucking thing," she sighed, finding a comfortable spot. "After they're born, let's burn the couch."
"Or donate it," Aaron said, bringing her a glass of water.
"Don't ruin my destructive groove with your good sense. — Bijou Hunter

I'm a business man and the reason I linked up with a major was because I understand they have that reach that I can't get no matter how hot I get in the streets. It's not always about money because I been had money. I want to be on TV and win awards. I want to be number one. You need a label to get through barriers. — Yo Gotti

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

I am at peace, and people become fair by themselves. — Laozi

The things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end. If not always in the way we expect. -Luna Loovegood — J.K. Rowling