Fair Share Quotes - Page 3

• I'm entitled to collect my fair share of community property without being called names.

  Gloria Allred

  Names, Community, Share

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• Nobody has been arrested on Wall Street for the crash of 2008. They're not paying their fair share of the taxes. And now with the Citizens United case of the Supreme Court, they get to buy politicians up out in the open.

  Michael Moore

  Wall, Citizens United, Politician

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• I've fallen prey to my fair share of moments of the phobias of others and the way that that can become an attack.

  Ezra Miller

  Way, Moments, Share

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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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• Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

  Elton John

  Tabloids, Share, Britain

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• I have been in my fair share of both onscreen and off screen fights.

  Amber Heard

  Fighting, Share, Has Beens

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• It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.

  Sam Harris

  Worry, People, Pretending

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• So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  New York, Thinking, Years

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• I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

  Pauline Hanson

  Politician, Share, Polished

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.

  Gary Hamel

  Opportunity, Growth, Way

  Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.99, John Wiley & Sons

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• I made my fair share of mistakes.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Mistake, Share, Made

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• Multi-millionaires who pay half or less than half of the percentage of tax the rest of us pay justify their actions by saying they pay what the law requires. Though true, the fact is they found ways within the law to beat the purpose of the law - which, in the case of taxes, is that we all pay our fair share.

  Simon Sinek

  Law, Purpose, Half

  "It’s Not Nice to Stab People" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012.

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• I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one - stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Money, Islands, Nurse

  "Last Night, Elizabeth Warren Became a Politician" By Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. September 6, 2012.

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• All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

  Thomas Sowell

  Political, Pay, Moral

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• Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.

  Arlen Specter

  Strong, Health, Years

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• The woman who opens the door has a blue stain on her shirt and dark hair wound into a messy knot and the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. They're pale, like a lioness's, nearly golden, but they also look like they've done their fair share of crying, and we all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.

  Jodi Picoult

  Beautiful, Eye, Dark

  "House Rules". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 2, 2010.

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• We're not going to waste our valuable space or your precious energy by giving equal time to stories of tragedy, failure, and tumult. They get far more that their fair share of attention everywhere else. Future historians might even conclude that our age suffered from a collective obsessive-compulsive disorder: the pathological need to repetitively seek out reasons for how bad life is.

  Rob Brezsny

  Media, Space, Giving

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.66, Frog Books

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• So let us take our fair share of the true refugees and act responsible as a government in providing for their necessary expenses. Let us stop skewing the whole process by taking some folks who are not truly refugees in order simply to meet our foreign policy needs or domestic policy demands. There has to be a better way to meet those needs and demands than we are doing now. I think it is embarrassing to all of us who truly know the mission of the Refugee Act.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Thinking, Government, Order

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• Americans are fighters. We're tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to fight on a level playing field, where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real shot, then no one - no one can stop us.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Real, Fighting, Creative

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• I'm trying to figure out how someone could live in a brothel for a month and not notice. You must be terribly dull-witted." Tessa glared. "If it helps at all, it seemed to be quite a high-class establishment. Nicely furnished, fairly clean..." "Sounds as if you've visited your fair share of brothels," Tessa said, sourly. "Making a study of them?" "More of a hobby," said Will, and smiled like a bad angel.

  Cassandra Clare

  Angel, Class, Trying

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• In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed. Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once enjoyed lose their appeal.

  Yann Martel

  Taken, Years, Broken

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• You have a divine right to abundance, and if you are anything less than a millionaire, you haven't had your fair share.

  Stuart Wilde

  Divine Right, Abundance, Share

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• Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.

  Jasper Fforde

  Fun, Fiction, Share

  Jasper Fforde (2004). “The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.55, Penguin

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• You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.

  Felix Dennis

  Mean, Pie, Looks

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• I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school.

  Brittany Snow

  Best Friend, Suicide, School

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