"The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime."

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Source : "Exit Interview: SEIU Head Andy Stern Steps Down". "Talk Of The Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. April 15, 2010.

Andy Stern

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“As you grow older, you will discover that your mind is the only truly limiting factor in your life. With a well developed mind you can go anywhere and do whatever. But nothing comes automatically and the best things don't come easy.”
“The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your life looking for one and it would not be a wasted life.”
“Because love, love never finishes.”

Source : Sara Zarr (2008). “Sweethearts”, p.157, Hachette UK
“A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.”
“I miss my hair, but I feel like going out there with some fake braids wouldn't be right. I want to be the most genuine performer I can be.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties, and yet at the same time urbane and tolerant. It is a vice of the scientific method when applied to human affairs that it fosters hemming and hawing and a scrupulousness that easily degenerates into obscurity and meaninglessness.”
“Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.”
“Longing is the fullest sense of desire; it's the most deeply felt kind of desire. I think the most interesting artwork comes out of some sense of longing. It could be called dissatisfaction; it could be called distance. There are many kinds of wanting to get closer to something else, whether that is an idea, a body, a place. Longing is also one of the conditions people approach reading, visual art, or music with - it's to satisfy that sense of longing. It's part of my job, on some level, to grapple with that notion.”

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