Factories Quotes - Page 2

• Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Children, Humorous

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• Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models.

  Emma Bonino

  Movement, Factory Workers, Form

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• Iowa is home to teachers, farmers, lawyers, factory workers, and many others who work hard every day to provide the best for their families and their future.

  Leonard Boswell

  Teacher, Hard Work, Home

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• I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.

  Alan Parsons

  Real, High Fidelity, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer.

  Arto Lindsay

  Summer, Knitting, Europe

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• At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.

  Carl Rakosi

  Jobs, Names, Factory Workers

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• I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

  Richard Wagner

  Hate, Men, Effort

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• Well, the infrastructure part of the stimulus has worked. There's absolutely no question about it. We can demonstrate in Pennsylvania and other states around the union how it's produced good, paying jobs both on the construction sites and back in American factories. It has worked.

  Ed Rendell

  Jobs, Pennsylvania, Unions

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 1, 2010.

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• Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.

  Albert Speer

  Improvement, Workplace, Staff

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• What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

  Fay Godwin

  Responsibility, Aggravation, Greed

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• We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Slave Labor, Land, Raw Materials

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• Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Travel, Adventure

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Funny, Humor, Law

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• For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, Circles, People

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• The chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special.

  Peter Hook

  Special, Chemistry, Made

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• Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

  Alistair Cooke

  Greek, Hollywood, Flourishing

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• In the factory we make cosmetics. In the store we sell hope.

  Charles Revson

  Inspirational, Funny, Hope

  In A. Tobias Fire and Ice (1976) ch. 8

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• I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.

  Gale Gordon

  Thinking, Perfect, Television

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• And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.

  Olivier Martinez

  Thinking, People, Genius

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• If you ever want to eat a tuna sandwich again, don't go to a tuna factory. I visited one where they had two lines: one was the human food line and one was the cat food line - and they didn't look any different.

  Mark Mobius

  Cat, Two, Different

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• As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.

  Chow Yun-Fat

  Actors, Directors, Workers

  "Working in Front of the Camera Keeps Me Alive'". Interview with Stephen Short, content.time.com. December 27, 1999.

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• Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Taken, Writing, Reality

  Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (1964). “Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic”

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• Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

  Michel Foucault

  School, Prison, Surprising

  Michael Kelly, Michel Foucault (1994). “Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate”, p.176, MIT Press

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• Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories.

  Kofi Annan

  Block, Bridges, Essentials

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• The products built in the factories of G.M., Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps.

  Michael Moore

  Mass Destruction, Melting, Weapons

  "Goodbye, GM" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2009.

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