#worker

It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work. ↗

— Philip Levine

#crummy #detroit #doing #fact #going

Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#dream #dreamer #feel #know #life

I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others. ↗

— Kate Moss

#associates #badly #because #behavior #business

Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America. ↗

— Barack Obama

#breaks #choice #companies #corporations #create

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#brother #chicago #city #come #daughter

I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs. ↗

— Ed Pastor

#american jobs #american worker #benefits #i #jobs

During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. 'Jeopardy' tries very hard to keep their secrets. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#bit #coworkers #double #during #experience

Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit! ↗

— Mother Jones

#child #city #city hall #day #hall

From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#desire #express #organization #peace #platforms

The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes. ↗

— Walid Jumblatt

#clothes #dressed #lebanon #soldiers #syrian