"The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce."

-- Samuel Gompers

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“When you do a studio picture, all the paperwork and legal stuff is already taken care of!”
“The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.”

Source : Statement on October 29, 1868. "Pages from the Goncourt Journal". Book by Edmond de Goncourt, translated by Robert Baldick, p. 141, 1962.
“I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.”
“My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.”
“The greatest thing about playing obviously is winning, and you can't replace that experience with anything.”
“Alarmed successively by every fashionable medical terror of the day, she dosed her children with every specific which was publicly advertised or privately recommended...The consequence was, that the dangers, which had at first been imaginary, became real: these little victims of domestic medicine never had a day's health: they looked, and were, more dead than alive.”
“I've been talking to Martina [Hingis] about playing for a couple of years. Maybe I can convince her to play some doubles.”
“Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility.”

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