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This idea you're going to take a 50-year-old coal miner and turn them into a software engineer is ridiculous.
If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.
I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.
My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.
The hottest coals of fire ever heaped upon the head of one who has wronged you are the coals of human kindness.
Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.
I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
Coal is an essential part of America's energy future, not to mention an important part of Pennsylvania's economy.
My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.
The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.
The coal industry is a huge industry when we're talking about polluting the environment, our air and our waterways.
I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.
Scatter soaked hardwood chunks over your coals for a quick and easy way to add a smoky nuance to your grilled foods.
The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.
To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.
The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at someone, only you're the one who gets burned.
The greatest natural resource our country has is not oil. It's not gas. It's not coal. It's the genius of our children.
Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.
If you've seen Mary Poppins and The Grinch, come to the Booth Theater and let me shove a little coal down your stocking.
Coal mines make the news only when they explode, collapse, kill. It's exciting! Tragedy! Fodder for a cable-news frenzy.
Working in a prison, is, to my mind, similar in ways to working in a coal mine. It's going to scare away a lot of people.
Frankly, the only thing China has in easy abundance is people and dirty coal. Neither is the asset they're made out to be.
If you look at the casualties, the federal government isn't waging a War on Coal. If anything, coal is waging a war on us.
I want to be respected by my peers and do really great work, even if it gets panned, even if I get raked across the coals.
It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port
I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.
Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy.
Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.
Late 19th-century America was basically a plutocratic enterprise while people toiled in mines and died of coal dust poisoning.
I strongly support an 'all-of-the-above' energy policy that includes additional development of wind, clean coal, and bio-fuels.
Some people, such as the unemployed coal miners and steelworkers of the Rust Belt, have been left behind by growing prosperity.
The European Union should come up with a solid plan to help especially Poland and Slovakia make this transition away from coal.
Despite the frequent use of coal miners as a potent political symbol, coal jobs are disappearing - and they're not coming back.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Not only are utilities switching from coal and oil to gas, but also trucking, schoolbuses, garbage trucks, and even taxi fleets.
But my family is connected to coal. There's hardly anybody in West Virginia that doesn't have a connection to the coal industry.
We have more natural resources - coal, oil, wind - across the board not only to be energy independent but to be a leading exporter.
It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of coal.
Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.
Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal.
I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.
Thatcherite economic policy was most acutely felt in the coal industry, where tens of thousands of jobs were lost as pits were shut down.
I learned in the Marines to leave no one behind, but after 34 years in Washington, Mitch McConnell left our coal miners behind years ago.
Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I'm hopeful, but very, very concerned.
The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves, And, like living coals, the apples Burned among the withering leaves.
The increase in coal production and the efficiency in coal movement are all administrative things that can add a lot to the economic growth.
My mom always puts a grapefruit in my stocking. I like grapefruit, but why put it in a stocking like it's a gift? It's almost as bad as coal.