M. Cesar Quotes

It's an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.

I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

The World Trade Center was for me not only out of scale vertically, but it was also out of scale in plan. It occupied several blocks that were all massed together.

A joke a day keeps the gloom away!

If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!

I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice.

I had to keep from laughing when a male relative of mine became concerned about how often I danced.

The make up took about an hour to put on, but the wig was a thing that bothered me more than anything else.

George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.

I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.

Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.

Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.

What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.

The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character.

If you're not frightened that you might fail, you'll never do the job. If you're frightened, you'll work like crazy.

We'll organize workers in this movement as long as we're willing to sacrifice. The moment we stop sacrificing, we stop organizing.

In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.

However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human life.

Aggression is not the problem, is the outcome of a problem.

Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss; it's about taking responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.

A dog is a vehicle, you know, a dog is a window to Mother Nature and that's the closest species we have.

Many dogs grow up without rules or boundaries. They need exercise, discipline and affection in that order.

Breed is among the least important things about a dog. It's more important to find a dog with compatible energy and needs that will fit into your lifestyle.

People with strong breeds are trying to be in control because their dog is labeled as aggressive or dangerous. That tells us how ignorant we are even though we love dogs.

'The Dog Whisperer' to me is a show that had a passion, and it helped me save relationships.

Puppies and kids naturally go together, but it's up to the adults to teach them how to do it the right way.

When I was old enough, I was 21 years of age, I decided to come to America. I did it illegally so I jumped the border. I didn’t speak any English.

One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people.

When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.

It's the maritime equivalent of rock climbing.

The basis for peace is respecting all creatures.

The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.

Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.

We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their very lives.

I would not take one cup of coffee from a grower...There's not a good one. I hate them. A few presents, a little talk, then the noose. That's how capitalism works.

Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization.

We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves...

Whenever I've been bitten, it's because I made a mistake. I either misread the dog's body language or let my guard down at the wrong time.

What keeps a nation strong is really the community. It is about people helping each other.

My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites.

I thought it was very humanitarian of Sean Penn and Madonna to marry each other. That way, they make only two people miserable instead of four.

Birth, life, death is a cycle. And they're all beautiful, you celebrate all of them. Animals do grieve, but they move on. That's the lesson behind animals.

I'm open for possibilities. I'm open for choices. I always welcome new ideas. I'm always eager to learn. I'm never going to close my mind from learning.

We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.

The only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you're not a fanatic around here, you can't cut it.

If we are full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan.

Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.

In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means.

We're going to pray a lot and picket a lot.

The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves.