Hilda Solis Quotes

#1. [The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did.

Trip Hawkins

#2. I would hope more people would have optimism about where the Latino has come. How we have emerged, and that there will be more women, women of color especially Latinas who will get involved.

Hilda Solis

#3. Typically, during recessionary times, particular groups suffer higher rates of unemployment -African Americans, and Latinos, and in some cases other minority groups. If you don't have a high level of training or education you're going to fall into that category.

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#4. My parents were both union members, and I grew up hearing how important it was to empower workers and have fair labor practices.

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#5. All cats can see futures, and see echoes of the past. We can watch the passage of creatures from the infinity of now, from all the worlds like ours, only fractionally different. And we follow them with our eyes, ghost things, and the humans see nothing.

Neil Gaiman

#6. No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.

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#7. Beware of will power. It damages your giving-up skills.

Vikrmn

#8. The young have hopes and dreams, while the old hold the remains of them in their hands and wonder what has happened to their lives.

Tan Twan Eng

#9. I want companies who get federal contracts to hire more women and minorities from the local area.

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#10. To all who struggle with depression or suicidal thoughts: you are not alone. we are all on this journey together. I promise you that there is hope. Let us reach out to one another and walk together in the sunlight.

Seth Adam Smith

#11. The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.

Alexandre Dumas-fils

#12. Young people need the hands-on training that comes with a summer job. They need to know how to dress for success and nail job interviews. But most of all, they need mentorship, guidance, and inspiration.

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#13. People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.

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#14. My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.

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#15. In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.

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#16. But it's the eyes that hold me captive, empty of concentric creek ripples and breezy tree branches playing the sky like my bow plays my violin.

Emily Murdoch

#17. 'Everything happens for a reason' is something that we have to tell ourselves all the time, because it's good to have the idea that something good is around the corner.

Margot Robbie

#18. I saw the prospect of serving as labor secretary as a wonderful opportunity to further the policies that I have been fighting for my whole life, and I had to seize it.

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#19. All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story.

Gerard Way

#20. As dancers, especially for myself, personally, dance constitutes a lot of the conversation that I have. While I'm not a ridiculous wordsmith and I can't clearly verbalize the things that I'm feeling sometimes, I'd say that I can emote how I feel by dancing, 100% of the time, and fearlessly at that.

Stephen Boss

#21. We need women to go through apprentice programs. I've seen women who did, and who are now highly trained electricians and welders. These are jobs that women are capable of doing.

Hilda Solis

#22. Civilized beings regard the act of intercourse as the highest expression of romantic love. One need only observe the behavior of animals, however, to realize that the act is often a form of violence.

Fiona Paul

#23. born in Newark... educated in Trenton... enlightened in LA...experienced in Brooklyn...actualization in Houston...manifestation in Ft. Myers

Alan Mitchell

#24. Protecting children and vulnerable workers abroad is a part of our overall efforts here at the Department of Labor.

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#25. I grew up in a modest neighborhood just outside of Los Angeles. It was an industrial community of blue-collar, working people ... some of the hardest-working people I've ever met.

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#26. At times you feel like you're the only voice speaking out to improve the working conditions of people, whether it's to be able to collectively bargain, to get adequate pay, to know that you can come home safe out of a coal mine.

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#27. My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money ... but lots of love.

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#28. Well, I'll tell you, one of things I'm proud of is for someone from Southern California, who didn't grow up around coal mines, I learned a lot that tragic day we lost twenty-nine miners at Upper Big Branch coal mine.

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#29. If there are dominant teams, people enjoy discussing whether that's good or bad for the game, and if there aren't any dominant teams, then people enjoy discussing that.

Al Michaels

#30. The best advice I can give women at all levels is increase training. There are still areas where we have to break through that glass ceiling.

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#31. My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books.

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#32. Take my picture Hollywood. I wanna be STAR

Lady Gaga

#33. Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers.

Victoria Osteen

#34. No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.

Hilda Solis

#35. My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for battered women. That's not the message we should be sending.

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