Pockets Quotes - Page 18

• In the name of compassion, Obama advocates seemingly endless extensions of unemployment benefits because his economic theology holds that by paying people not to work, you will create jobs. It not only fails to factor in the obvious deterrent that extended benefits have on their recipients but also falsely assumes that transferring money from one pocket to the next generates more spending - by some mythical multiple factor, no less. Back on planet Earth, studies reveal that extending unemployment benefits results in more unemployment.

  David Limbaugh

  Jobs, Compassion, Names

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• The government and its chiefs do not have the powers of the mythical Santa Claus. They cannot spend except by taking out of the pockets of some people for the benefit of others.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, People, Benefits

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• I fell into hip-hop right from the beginning. I was a teenager in the '60s, so I was putting all my pocket money into buying LPs. I followed the ascent of the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, and Stevie Wonder. I followed popular music very closely, and I've never stopped.

  Simon de Pury

  Teenager, Hip Hop, Rolling

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think it's really good to create pockets and events throughout the year that highlight certain things that are really popular on YouTube.

  Felicia Day

  Thinking, Years, Events

  Source: collider.com

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• I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Mean, Want

  "'Fresh Air' Remembers Author Maurice Sendak". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, kut.org. June 10, 2015.

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• Doing good with other people's money has two basic flaws. In the first place, you never spend anybody else's money as carefully as you spend your own. So a large fraction of that money is inevitably wasted. In the second place, and equally important, you cannot do good with other people's money unless you first get the money away from them. So that force - sending a policeman to take the money from somebody's pocket - is fundamentally at the basis of the philosophy of the welfare state.

  Milton Friedman

  Philosophy, Two, People

  Milton Friedman (1978). “Tax limitation, inflation and the role of government”, Fisher Inst

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• When will we get done with the fool idea that the way to make a party grow is to scare away everybody who has an extra dollar in his pocket? God forbid that the Democratic Party should become a mere gathering of the unsuccessful!

  John W. Davis

  Party, Ideas, Scare

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• The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people's pockets but to put more responsibility in people's pockets.

  Mark Steyn

  Responsibility, People, Reason

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• Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Mind, Study, Concentration

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• Inflationary trends are under way. Wage increases, through strikes or threatened strikes, are rampant. Government expenditures are ballooning ominously. Hoarding has contributed unconscionably to price-boosting. The Government should institute measures calculated to arrest inflation. America's commitments are already so mountainous, international and domestic, that the pruning knife should be applied. You and I, all American taxpayers, don't possess limitless resources-our pockets are not bottomless. Curb inflation at every turn!

  B. C. Forbes

  Commitment, Government, Knives

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• College is like a woman: you work so hard to get in, and nine months later you wish you'd never come.
  We used to say if a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun.

  Dan Rather

  College, Wish, Sides

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• They're counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They're counting on you to be standing at attention with your hand over your heart, pledging allegiance to the flag, while they pick your pocket!

  Bill Moyers

  Heart, Hands, Over You

  "This Isn't the Speech I Expected to Give Today". Bill Moyers' Address to the Environmental Grantmakers Association, Brainerd, MN, www.commondreams.org. October 16, 2001.

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• Learn to put your troubles in your pocket, then leave them there when you do your laundry.

  John Avery

  Trouble, Laundry

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• All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through to the workers. They got a good pocket of people together and the workers seemed to understand that they were in a repressed state.

  John Lennon

  People, Together, Able

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Any stimulus package amounts to taking money from the pockets of some Americans and placing it in the pockets of others who have better political connections.

  Mona Charen

  Political, Connections, Stimulus

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• I haven't fully moved over to the iPad. At any given time, I have about four DVDs in my pocket. I'm constantly screening 'Top Chef,' 'Housewives,' and all the other shows we have in development, racing to meet a deadline. So I pretty much bring my laptop everywhere.

  Andy Cohen

  Dvds, Ipads, Racing

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• After the Ed Sullivan Show, Feb. 9, 1964, at approx. 8:04pm [laughs], after that moment every album, every guitar, evey set of drums that was ever sold ... 10% should have gone right into their pocket!

  George Thorogood

  Guitar, Should Have, Laughing

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• What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence.

  Anita Desai

  Independence, Fists, Riches

  Anita Desai (1980). “Clear light of day”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The smooth stones you pick up and examine under the moon's light have been made blue from the sea. Next morning when you pull them from your trouser pocket, they are still blue.

  Raymond Carver

  Morning, Moon, Light

  Raymond Carver (2015). “All of Us: The Collected Poems”, p.60, Vintage

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• I always used to travel without a passport case, and because of it I think I'm four passports in. I bought this small Tumi case to protect my new one, and it works really well, not just for protecting it but also for keeping credit cards and small stuff. I just throw it in my bag when I'm traveling, as opposed to stuffed in my pocket.

  Avicii

  Thinking, Bags, Cards

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

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• More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

  Henry Rollins

  Journalism, Seems

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• I'm going out with these old guys. One guy gave me a hickey and left his teeth in my neck. Another man, we were having a perfectly lovely dinner; he looked up and me and went: You're not my wife! Another guy died during dinner. I had to go in his pocket to get the American Express card. Then you wonder: What would he tip? Another guy said: I want you to meet my family, and took me to the cemetery.

  Joan Rivers

  Men, Wife, Guy

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• Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, "Did you fall?" He said, "No, I'm tryin' to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket."

  Billy Connolly

  Fall, Chocolate, Bars

  "Billy Connolly: An Audience with Billy Connolly". TV Special, October 26, 1985.

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• The House okayed the gasoline tax cut, which will increase the deficit, line the pockets of the oil companies, and hurt the environment; Dole said that if there was just some way this could interfere with people's sex lives, it would be perfect legislation.

  Bill Maher

  Hurt, Sex, Cutting

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• I just [take pictures] because the camera is something to carry around in my pocket.

  Andy Warhol

  Cameras

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