Quotes with much-maligned

Quotes 861 till 880 of 1944.

  • Barack Obama It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Barbara Castle It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Barbara Walters It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Cate Campbell It's about never giving up until your hand is on the wall. I think people who get complacent, who think that they are in front, a sloppy touch, can cost you that elusive medal, just as much as the people who are gunning for you. If you believe you can get there right to the very end, miracles do happen.
    Cate Campbell
    Malawian-born Australian athlete (1992 - )
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  • Arnold Bennett It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Silas Weir Mitchell It's easier traveling the road of life when I don't have so much to carry on my back.
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  • W. H. Auden It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • George Orwell It's frightful that people who are so ignorant have so much influence.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bob Graham It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Jack Lemmon It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
    Jack Lemmon
    American actor (1925 - 2001)
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  • Alex Cox It's interesting actually, what's gone on with that footage, and also what happened with the footage from the war in Afghanistan, is that our news reporting is pretty much along the lines of pornography now.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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  • Bono It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?'
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Brad Feld It's much easier to get a reception from someone if there is an introduction versus randomly trying to get in front of people.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Carmen Kass It's not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It's more of a word than a real existence. I think, also, looking at it from a designer's point of view, at one point maybe they felt the stars took too much attention away from the clothes.
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  • Mary O'Connor It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.
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  • Jack Benny It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
    Jack Benny
    American comedian, vaudevillian and actor (1894 - 1974)
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  • George Orwell It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Andrew J. Bacevich It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.
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  • Malcolm Forbes It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Phil McGraw It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.
    Phil McGraw
    American television personality and author (1950 - )
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All much-maligned famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 44)