Factories Quotes

• Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

  C. L. R. James

  People, Together, Social

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• I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think.

  Tony Wilson

  Thinking, Pieces, Records

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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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• Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Ivory Tower, Important, Towers

  "A Theory of Roughness". Interview with John Brockman, www.edge.org. December 20, 2004.

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• Our brain is the factory of the emotions

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Brain, Emotion

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

  Richard Linklater

  Want, Film, Factory Workers

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

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• And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people.

  Alberto Fujimori

  Two, People, Three

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• The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.

  Donald Judd

  Attitude, Ideas, Tables

  Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”

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• I can walk through the front door of any factory and out the back and tell you if it's making money or not. I can just tell by the way it's being run and by the spirit of the workers.

  Harvey S. Firestone

  Running, Doors, Way

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• The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

  Beth Henley

  Dog, School, College

  Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com. 2005.

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• The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country.

  Ed Markey

  Country, Party, Rights

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• I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor.

  Herschel Walker

  Sports, Football, Dream

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• And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

  Seth Godin

  Our World, Numbers, People

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• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  Karel Capek

  Men, Race, Robots

  "R.U.R". Play by Karel Capek, 1920.

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• The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

  Thomas Huxley

  Knowledge, College, Looks

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• I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long ago. I like to think that I'm just a regular guy.

  Denzel Washington

  Men, Thinking, Long Ago

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• You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Fire, Police, Occupy Movement

  "Elizabeth Warren: 'There Is Nobody in This Country Who Got Rich on His Own'". Campaign video clip, www.cbsnews.com. September 22, 2011.

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  The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Cities, Police

  1946 'Some Thoughts on the Common Toad'.

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• Pork was in 1971, and I stopped hanging out at The Factory by like 1973.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Pork, Hanging Out

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• And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Home, Garden, Mexican

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• Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Kids, Ideas, Looks

  Elizabeth Warren (2014). “A Fighting Chance”, p.215, Metropolitan Books

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• The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'

  Tom Coburn

  Eye, Needs, Favors

  "For Republicans, the Moment for Reform Has Arrived" by Tom Coburn, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 24, 2010.

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• Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

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

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• My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

  Ed Bradley

  Mother, Jobs, Second Chance

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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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