Factory Workers Quotes

• 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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• 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, Factories

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

  Emma Bonino

  Movement, Factories, Form

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• I want to make a film about a factory worker.

  Richard Linklater

  Want, Film, Factories

  ""You can't hold back the human spirit"". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Intellectual, One Day, Speech

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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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• Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.

  Bernard Crick

  Factories, Working For A Living, Capitalism

  Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.240, University of Chicago Press

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• The factory workers say that it's impossible to do anything right. If you arrive five minutes early you are a saboteur; if you arrive five minutes late you are betraying socialism; if you arrive on time they say, Where did you get the watch?

  Len Deighton

  Watches, Saboteurs, Impossible

  Len Deighton (1964). “Funeral In Berlin”

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• If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Work, Organized Labor, Unions

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• A factory worker at an assembly line, who can learn their job in 5 minutes, can get bored fairly easily, and disengage completely.

  John Medina

  Jobs, Bored, Lines

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle, hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or laborer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Wall, Home

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: A patriot after all, 1940-1941”

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• My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.

  Brian Dennehy

  Stars, Real, Hero

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• The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.

  Ray Davies

  Rock And Roll, Lines, Corporations

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• I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?

  Victor Borge

  Music, Eggs, Factories

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• I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers.

  Bill Shorten

  Construction Workers, Two, Matter

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• An economic message, an economic platform unites the factory worker in Scranton, the young woman in Los Angeles struggling to pay her college debt and the single mom in Buffalo who's on minimum wage.

  Charles Schumer

  Mom, Struggle, College

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm in show business. I'm not like a poor factory worker who'd been laid off.

  Woody Allen

  Poor, Factories, Shows

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• I'm the granddaughter of a factory worker from Scranton, Pennsylvania. He went to work in the same lace mill every day for 50 years. He believed he passed it down to my dad, who passed it down to me, that if he did what he was supposed to do, he'd have a good life and his kids would have an even better life. That is the American dream. That is what we believe in, that's what we've got to keep going generation after generation.

  Hillary Clinton

  Dream, Dad, Good Life

  Source: time.com

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• The leather vests are work vests, supposed to look like factory workers. They're actually the vests we use in the studio when we make jewelry.

  Pamela Love

  Looks, Use, Vests

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Estiven Rodriguez couldn't speak a word of English when he moved to New York City at age nine. But last month, thanks to the support of great teachers and an innovative tutoring program, he led a march of his classmates - through a crowd of cheering parents and neighbors - from their high school to the post office, where they mailed off their college applications. And this son of a factory worker just found out he's going to college this fall.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, New York, Cheer

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• Sure, they are the future of our world. Nike and Reebok need more factory workers every day.

  Zach Braff

  Nike, Our World, Needs

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• The fatal flaw of most utopian visions is that they're fundamentally static, and that's not a comfortable place for humans to live. Fourier was very good at imagining a utopia that is constantly changing and very busy, but a vision of paradise that would have been most tantalizing to an underfed overworked factory worker in 1840 doesn't have much appeal in fiction because it's not a story.

  Christine Jennings

  Vision, Fiction, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you come into a creativity-driven environment, things are very different and there is the danger that a traditional managerial mind-set could even do damage. That is because managing creative teams and people is very different from managing the factory worker/foreman relationship.

  John Kao

  Team, Creativity, People

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• Dad, once an aspiring architect, drove his own catering truck to feed factory workers in downtown Los Angeles, and mom, with a Mensa IQ and mathematical gifts, served as a bookkeeper and worked in a grocery store while pursuing her calling in music: playing piano and composing songs. Perhaps in a way, part of my drive was to complete their unfulfilled ambitions and dreams, but in my own way.

  Dan Millman

  Mom, Dream, Song

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• You don't want to say somebody did a great job of acting. You want to say, "Where did he find that person? How did he get that factory worker to come out of the factory and be on camera?" You want to believe that person is real.

  Ronee Blakley

  Jobs, Real, Believe

  Source: therumpus.net

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