Household Quotes - Page 10

• Child care can almost bankrupt a family, even a two-parent household in which both parents are working. That keeps a parent from being at ease and it really stifles the social and economic growth of a family. Women are hit hard across the board, but particularly in homes where the mother is the head of the household and the only wage-earner. It hurts her, and it hurts her children.

  Nina Turner

  Mother, Hurt, Children

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I don't see the women as a problem. The women are doing all they can do. They're heading up households; they're single parents; they're breadwinners; they're the 'mamas,' they're the 'daddies,' they're the 'uncles.' They take the kids to school; they take them to doctors, you know? They take them to games. I see it all the time.

  Steve Harvey

  Uncles, School, Kids

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• [Our family] love our father's image because the only thing we received from him was love and affection. We recognize that our father made incredible damage outside of the home but we ask for reciprocity because the only thing he ever gave us within the household was love.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Father, Home, Family Love

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• The collective income of all these people - the bottom half - is less than three percent of global household income, and so there is a grotesque maldistribution of income and wealth.

  Thomas Pogge

  People, Income, Three

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The bottom quarter of the human population has only three-quarters of one percent of global household income, about one thirty-second of the average income in the world, whereas the people in the top five percent have nine times the average income. So the ratio between the averages in the top five percent and the bottom quarter is somewhere around 300 to one - a huge inequality that also gives you a sense of how easily poverty could be avoided.

  Thomas Pogge

  Average, People, Giving

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Over the period from 1988 to 2005, the income share of the top five percent has grown by about 3.5 percent of global household income, and the shares of all the other groups have diminished. The greatest relative reduction was in the bottom quarter, which lost about one third of its share of global household income, declining from 1.155 to 0.775 percent, and now is even more marginalized.

  Thomas Pogge

  Groups, Income, Share

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that PPPs are sensitive to the prices of all the commodities, goods and services, that households are consuming worldwide, with each commodity weighted in the calculations according to its share in international household consumption expenditure.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Commodity, Reason

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Car prices play a large role in calculating PPPs even while they play no role whatsoever in the consumption or consumption needs of the poor. And the prices of rice, bread and beans play a small role in calculating PPPs even though they play a huge role in meeting the consumption needs of the poor. So the World Bank's method of comparing and converting everything at general purchasing power parities into US dollars is highly distorting within an exercise whose purpose it is to determine whether households are or are not capable of meeting their basic consumption needs.

  Thomas Pogge

  Exercise, Play, Car

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I'm not part of the Hollywood scene. I don't run around with 30 women. I have a very calm household. I'm surrounded by my grandkids and wonderful friends, and I consider myself very lucky.

  Rick James

  Running, Wonderful Friends, Hollywood

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• We could do some household and neighborhood or town wind energy. But even this will run up eventually against the problem of needing an underlying fossil fuel economy to fabricate the hardware. Same with photovoltaic (solar) energy. We're going to be disappointed by what these things can do for us.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Running, Wind, Fossils

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• Real median household incomes in the U.S. were basically the same in 1989 as in 2014. But we are also seeing similar challenges in the U.K. in the stagnation of real wages.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Real, Challenges, Income

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.

  Wally Lamb

  Girl, Writing, Voice

  Source: rssfeeds.usatoday.com

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• I have a funny story to tell about English and how I came to fall in love with the language. I was desperate to fit in and spoke English all the time. Trouble was, in my household it was a no-no to speak English because somehow it is disrespectful to call parents and grandparents "you" - impersonal pronouns are offensive in Vietnamese.

  Andrew Lam

  Falling In Love, Speak English, Grandparent

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• My parents never mentioned anything about fashion in our household, instead we used to talk about literature, theatre, and arts...this is why I have kept a real relation with the Art world, by putting books from the beginning in my shops' windows.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, Art, Real

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• And the same goes for government benefits. The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that 62 percent of households headed by illegal immigrants use some form of cash or non-cash welfare programs like food stamps or housing assistance. Tremendous costs, by the way, to our country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Government, Welfare Programs

  Donald Trump's Immigration Speech in Phoenix, www.latimes.com. August 31, 2016.

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• As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. Each household with its immediate extension of friends makes a society; the village or street group of playmates is a community; each business group, each club, is another.

  John Dewey

  Community, Groups, Village

  John Dewey (0101). “Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.20, Prabhat Prakashan

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• How frequent, how constant ought we to be, like Christ Jesus our example, in doing good, especially to the souls of men and especially to the household of faith (yea, even to our enemies), when we remember that this is our seed time, of which every minute is precious, and that as our sowing is, so shall be our eternal harvest.

  Roger Williams

  Jesus, Men, Soul

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• People I've interviewed say they're terrified there may be boycotts of their [the Kochs] products, which include so many household items that everybody's familiar with, things like Stainmaster Carpet and Dixie Cups and Brawny paper towels and Lycra.

  Jane Mayer

  People, Paper Towels, Dixie

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We had all the advantages of being in, you know, the '50s and the '60s, where a one-income household could actually support a family. And mom was around and wanted nothing more than to just, you know, do everything she could for her kids.

  Jill Stein

  Mom, Kids, Support

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Mom, Years, Raised

  "Interview: Nipsey Hussle Talks African Roots, Snoop Dogg Co-Sign, and Rappers Reppin' Gangs". Interview with Toshitaka Kondo, www.complex.com. April 1, 2010.

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• In an Italian household, there were two figures for me growing up - you had the Pope and you had Frank Sinatra, and, of course, Tony Bennett. And not necessarily in that order.

  Robert Davi

  Growing Up, Italian, Two

  "INTERVIEW: Actor Robert Davi On His Frank Sinatra Tribute, His Hamptons Roots, "Davi’s Way" And More". Interview with Nicole Barylski, www.hamptons.com.

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• New York City pretty much reeked of music. Reeked of rap and hip-hop. As for me, growing up in a strict West Indian, Trinidadian household, and a Christian household as well, I had to fight for the right to go and actually be a part of it.

  Phife Dawg

  Christian, New York, Growing Up

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• There's no doubt that [tax cuts] act as a stimulus. How could they not, in a sense? You're giving cash back to households.

  Judy Woodruff

  Cutting, Giving, Doubt

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• They have two aspects. One is that they're unpredictable, and that often rich and more affluent households are slow to spend the funds. The other thing about tax cuts is that they're redistributive. So they tend, naturally, to benefit those who pay tax.

  Judy Woodruff

  Cutting, Two, Benefits

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The good thing is, we have household formation in this country.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Good Things, Formation

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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