#ere

Why pay $20 million to Harrison Ford? I don't even understand that. They think they have to do it... If someone puts a price on himself, that suggests he is irreplaceable, then he better find somewhere else to work. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#else #even #find #ford #harrison

Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came straight out of the blue - nobody was expecting anything like Martin and Lewis. A sexy guy and a monkey is how some people saw us. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#anything #blue #came #censors #expecting

We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#born #either #first #get #house

The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#alleviate #corporate #despairing #economic #fair

But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#course #definite #destined #external #greatly

The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#cause #comrades #fellows #home #industry

While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#being #blood #defense #elsewhere #families

Like everybody I have many different sides. ↗

— Juliette Lewis

#different sides #everybody #i #like #many

A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#back #brought #carry #cheerfully #child

We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#continue #different #different kinds #grain #had