Rich Quotes - Page 37

• Rich kids who write songs about food stamps always piss me off. I'm not going to write any songs about that, either.

  Neko Case

  Song, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If every rich person gave 50 percent of their wealth to charity, I would not say they should pay more taxes.

  George Soros

  Charity, Pay, Wealth

  "'Merkel Is Leading Europe in the Wrong Direction'". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. February 13, 2012.

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• You humiliate a rich person and they're still rich. You humiliate a brilliant person and they're still smart. A person who is well connected is still the king of England. But if you humiliate a young person, you take away the only form of power they have.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Kings, Smart, England

  "Chuck Palahniuk in conversation with Tom Spanbauer". Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com. May 2014.

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• The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great.

  Simon Baker

  Wall, Thinking, Poor

  "Simon Baker Talks Margin Call, Occupy Wall Street, The Mentalist, and His Thoughts on Doctor Strange". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 20, 2011.

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• New Orleans is one of the most exciting, incredible communities in the world. There's such a rich culture and history, and there are innumerable things to do.

  Ryan Reynolds

  New Orleans, Community, Culture

  "Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Mark Strong and Peter Sarsgaard Interview GREEN LANTERN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 13, 2011.

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• I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences.

  David Oyelowo

  Opportunity, Veins, Actors

  Source: variety.com

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• We always say we are equal in front of death, but when you are rich, for example, and you have everybody taking care of you, I think that you suffer much less. It must be much more painful to die when you are poor than when you are rich. But when your heart is broken, you can be rich, poor, whatever - a broken heart, we are all equal in front of it. And I think there is no subject more serious.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Heart, Thinking, Broken

  "Marjane Satrapi: Superman is Boring, Batman is Hot, Dictators Are Clueless". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. August 13, 2012.

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• The American people want to raise the minimum wage. Every poll tells us that. That bill will not get to the floor of the Senate. The American people want to ask the rich to pay more in taxes. But the legislation that will get to the floor is tax breaks for billionaires.

  Bernie Sanders

  People, Minimum Wage, Want

  "Bernie Sanders Goes Biblical on Income Inequality". Interview with Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. April 2, 2015.

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• Thank God for movie music. It preserves the rich vocabulary in classical music through challenging times.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Vocabulary, Challenges, Thank God

  "The Superconductor: SF Symphony’s Michael Tilson Thomas (Condensed Version)". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2010.

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• Yet even the rich have their own kind of suffering, anxiety, doubt, and fear. So in many cases, wealthy people aren't happy! And once those with material wealth encounter small difficulties, their amount of mental suffering is sometimes bigger than it is for those who have faced such difficulties every day.

  Dalai Lama

  People, Anxiety, Doubt

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

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• Some people say that the West has a cruel history. These people also may see the achievements of Western countries - in terms of the economy, education, health, and social achievements - as a result of exploitation of poorer countries, including Arab countries. Western nations get rich by using resources such as Arab oil. Meanwhile, the countries supplying them raw materials remain poor. Due to such injustices, jealousies are created.

  Dalai Lama

  Country, Using Resources, Oil

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 1, 2006.

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• My song are more about the practical message of not wearing ourselves out just to get rich and looking at what life is really about and enjoying each and every day as opposed to the opposite of that. About living your life in a freer sense and not being bound by what people think of you and looking forward to seeing the grander scheme of who God is, what He's done and what He's doing and what He'd going to do.

  Peter Furler

  Song, Thinking, Opposites

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• It's always been the case that you have the really rich, and the really poor. But hey, look, all the great empires have their periods where they rule the world, and then they crumble.

  Mickey Rourke

  Looks, Hey, World

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• In a true free market economy, you can't make yourself rich without enriching your community.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Community, Economy, Free Market

  "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. interviewed by David Kupfer". The Progressive magazine, November 2006.

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• An American is a guy, a rich guy with a family, a decent guy with a family with as many kids as he likes, doing what he wants, working with people that he likes, and enjoying himself to his very old age.

  Jack Kirby

  Kids, People, Guy

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• War in its essence is another form of capitalism. Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them. So much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.

  Bell Hooks

  War, Essence, People

  "How Do You Practice Intersectionalism? An Interview with bell hooks". Interview with Randy Lowens, nefac.net. March 15, 2012.

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• I think if you're able to do over the course of your career 20, 30, 50 very wonderful rich characters, you'd rather have that than an Oscar.

  Angela Bassett

  Character, Thinking, Careers

  "'The Rosa Parks Story': Angela Bassett Interview". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• It's interesting to be an adult and to have that level of ignorance about something, because the nice part about is you get that discovery. The learning curve is so rich and steep.

  Demetri Martin

  Nice, Ignorance, Curves

  Source: maximumfun.org

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• So to make movies, if you're first goal is to make money, well you can! Make a tent-pole movie that China wants. But that's not the kind of thing that's really going to get your remembered. You're not going to change anything with that. You might become rich from it!

  John Waters

  Goal, Might, Tents

  Source: www.thehippocollective.com

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• Animals, like us, have rich and spacious interiors. They contain inner landscapes: desert places and lonely canyons, cliffs of madness and rivers or serene awareness that merge in tranquil seas.

  Gary A. Kowalski

  Inspirational, Motivational, Lonely

  Gary Kowalski (2007). “The Souls of Animals”, p.84, New World Library

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• What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?

  Ivan Turgenev

  First Love, Rising Up, Phantoms

  Ivan Turgenev (2012). “First Love and the Diary of a Superfluous Man”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• My son is a great kid and does super well in school. I couldn't be prouder of him. What I tell him is, 'You don't want to just be known for being the son of a rich rock 'n' roll star.' I've seen a lot of kids like that. I want him to be happy, work hard and create his own thing. I tell him, 'You're not gonna be one of these kids up on stage playing with me. If you wanna have hits - write your own. Then we can play together.'

  Kid Rock

  Stars, Kids, Hard Work

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• When I was growing up, you were supposed to marry and therefore didn't plan ahead. Planning ahead is one of the few reliable measures of class in the sense that rich people plan for generations forward and poor people plan for Saturday night, and by that measure, women have been lower class. We were less likely to plan ahead because we're more likely to think that who we marry and our children are going to dictate our plans.

  Gloria Steinem

  Growing Up, Children, Night

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• Certain kinds of things that the novel used to do, which was, "Oh, I'm living out here in West Nowhere, Nebraska and I'm curious how the upper class in New York City lives, I guess I'll read a novel about it." We don't have to do that now. You just turn on the TV. Turn on Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous. You can get that information anywhere. Novels don't have to do that anymore.

  Jonathan Franzen

  New York, Class, Cities

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 1, 2010.

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• The image foreigners have of French cuisine is fattening and very fancy food. But it's not true - French food isn't just rich. The word "healthy" doesn't exist in French. We have many, many words, but not that one. To me, healthy means paying close attention to feeding people.

  Alain Ducasse

  Mean, People, Healthy

  "The Eat Sheet: How Alain Ducasse Pulled Off the Other Princely Wedding of the Year (Exclusive)". Interview with Rebecca Leffler, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 21, 2011.

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