Being Rich Quotes - Page 5

• I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money.

  Angie Stone

  Girl, Thinking, People

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• Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Tired, Rich, Enough

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• There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

  Jimmy Carter

  Powerful, Believe, Blessed

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• Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Art, Thinking, Crafts

  The New York Times, March 25, 2007.

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• I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

  Stephen King

  Should Have, America, Want

  "Mitt Romney: Chen debacle marks 'dark day for freedom' - US politics live", www.theguardian.com.

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• Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

  Rebecca Ferguson

  Nice, Thinking, People

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• Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

  John Lennon

  Love, Motivational, Peace

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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• The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Giving, Purpose, Rich

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• I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.

  Bill Murray

  Jobs, People, Trying

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• For me this was never a money issue, it was about being rich in your heart. To come home, and to be in the place where your dream first started, 15 minutes away from where my grandfather built my first basketball court, is a dream come true.

  Baron Davis

  Basketball, Dream, Home

  "Sacramento center Miller suspended". www.sfgate.com. July 11, 2008.

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• Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Dream, Moving, Ideas

  "Fareed Zakaria: 'The American Dream Is Better In Europe'" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. November 6, 2011.

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• Every one should be wealthy, if only for a day, so that each might realize that be being rich is not the ideal condition that most believe it is. And like the land, we should have little need for all that silver when we cease breating. Let us enjoy the smiling faces of as many children of god as we can while we are able to see them.

  Og Mandino

  Children, Believe, Should Have

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• I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

  Sue Grafton

  Single, Rich, Being Single

  Sue Grafton (2011). “D is for Deadbeat”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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• I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule and someday I'll try to get around to it.

  Truman Capote

  Mean, Mind, Trying

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.39, Vintage

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• I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

  Paul Lynde

  Comedy, Obsession, Rich

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• One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Cost, Rich, Contradiction

  "Nietzsche: His Philosophy of Contradictions and the Contradictions of His Philosophy". Book by Wolfgang Müller-Lauter (p. 7), January 1, 1999.

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• Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost wept with sorrow and marvel at its journey, which was tenderness for his own journey. In India almost nobody would be able to afford this rice, and you had to travel around the world to be able to eat such things where they were cheap enough that you could gobble them down without being rich; and when you got home to the place where they grew, you couldn't afford them anymore.

  Kiran Desai

  Home, Journey, Sorrow

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• He was in blue jeans and a work shirt, which is another weird quirk of Rich Old Men. Just one of the guys here. Blue jeans and a work shirt, salt of the earth, working man like yourself. Like they're somehow uncomfortable about being rich enough to sleep in a bed made of vaginas being pulled around the town at night by a fleet of gold-covered midgets.

  Warren Ellis

  Sleep, Night, Men

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  Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.

  John Waters

  Book, Home, Want

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.153, Macmillan

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• Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich.

  Nhat Hanh

  Energy, Want, Obstacles

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Sherab Chodzin Kohn (2011). “True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.

  Isadora Duncan

  Art, People, Rich

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it; but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.

  Truman Capote

  Morning, Mean, Ego

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.39, Vintage

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• Interesting thing about being rich is once you pay your taxes, you're still rich.

  Lewis Black

  Interesting, Pay, Rich

  "Lewis Black talks about life, liberty and the pursuit of funny". Interview with Brian J. Karem, www.mocovox.com. December 08, 2012.

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• Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

  Edith Wharton

  Book, Mind, Want

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.12, Xist Publishing

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• Boys, I have been rich and I have been poor, and believe me being rich is better.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Money, Believe, Boys

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