quotes about Afl

last updated: November 28, 2023

The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.
-- Andy Stern

Source : "Labor leader calls for reform / Reorganization in order, says chief of fast-growing union" by George Raine, www.sfgate.com. June 22, 2004.

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“Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.”
“But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle?”

Source : FaceBook post by Chris Bohjalian from Apr 04, 2015
“What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait”
“It is not bright colors but good drawing that makes figures beautiful.”

Source : "The Quotable Artist". Book by Peggy Hadden, p. 32, 2002.
“Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.”
“I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.”
“There are people who believe once somebody gets you a job in show business you are set and the truth is you have to fight for every job. People opened the doors for me for sure and hopefully I've helped open the door for some people but when you're there it's on you and you better be ready for it.”

Source : Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. June 28, 2012.
“Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.”
“In the university, professors make up artificial problems. In the real world, the problems do not come in nice, neat packages. They have to be discovered.”
“The best sex I have ever had was with my vibrator.”